according to reddit they had 918 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) in 2022, then they stopped reporting it for I assume stock reasons 🤷♀️. Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.
The widely shared number for Lemmy MAU is ~40,000. I’ve heard this shared for many years and I wasn’t sure if it was accurate anymore. The actual numbers are easy to find so I added all of the totals from piefed statistics page for Lemmy + Piefed + Mbin.
It turned out to be 40,272. guess the number was correct after all!
https://piefed.social/statistics?software=Lemmy
so that’s 1,000,000,000 vs 40,000
that’s 0.004%! I lowkey forgot how big reddit is.
Here, have my upvote. It’s worth 25,000. 🪙
I like it here, I came over from Reddit years ago and the only time I’ve been back is when searching for random tech or niche hobby stuff and a reddit thread shows up, but that’s about to end too due to the login thing.
I’d rather hang out with a small group of friends than be alone in a massive drunken rave. 🤷♀️
“People”
Yeah there’s no way reddit has a billion users. Not human ones. They’re doing everything they can to push people away. I’d be surprised if their user growth wasn’t actually negative.
I like those odds
There are dozens of us.
DOZENS.
In other words, you’re saying that every Lemmy user is worth 25,000 Redditors.
At least!
I think you’re worth 25,001, for sure.
Now kiss!
There are 450 million people in the world with English as their mother tongue. There are a lot of people who speak English, but I’m guessing they prefer social media in their own language or are not proficient enough to not be called out on Reddit. Of the 450 million, around half would be out of the age group that is likely to be interested in Reddit. Around half of those are women who, again, are less likely to be interested in Reddit. I have no hard figures or evidence of any of this, but it seems unlikely to me that there are 1000 million human users on Reddit.
I don’t think it has all those users either, but the language argument doesn’t hold water for me. The app has been auto-translating for a while now, and there’s a large Spanish-speaking community that doesn’t speak English. Even before that, I myself have Spanish as my primary language and used Reddit daily; the German community is huge, and others like Russia or Poland are also, to my knowledge, very large.
But are we able to parse out how many of those active users are bots?
Who gives a shit
… and what proportions of lemmy vs reddit users are bots or alt / sock puppet accounts?
Exactly!
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In my book you dozens of guys and gals are so much cooler than the Reddit masses.
There isn’t one human out of ten with a reddit account.
I’m not sure that Facebook reach that in its better days.
Taking into consideration a quarter of the population didn’t have an access to the internet in 2025 (according to the world bank data), and considering that Reddit is not well know in many european place, that cannot be.Can confirm that Reddit is not well known outside of a minority of users in Central Europe. I would say this also goes for China/Russia (when they actually able to access it) and i guess most of Africa, not only because of the language barrier. Reddit is very US-centric, and I’d say more than 300m worldwide is streching it.
They’re deliberately pushing hard in India, apparently.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I truly doubt Reddit is actually growing if you discount for bots, but I reckon it may be wishful thinking.
