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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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.

  • pseudo@jlai.luEnglish
    20·
    1 hour ago

    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.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      2·
      7 minutes ago

      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.

  • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.orgEnglish
    24·
    2 hours ago

    You are comparing apples & oranges: Reddit is counting everyone as MAU. Even a not-logged-in guy coming from google opening one page is a MAU for them. The Lemmy statistics are only showing users who are actively doing something. Upvoting, posting, commenting and so on.

  • graycube@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    The longer it stays that way the longer we have before the inevitable enshiitfication and we have to start looking for somewhere else to go.

  • bantering@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    48 minutes ago

    Identical trash populations. One site is smaller. Y’all are gonna fart in a circle and whiff it up about how superior you are to Redditors now.

    Love that for you.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Just like everything AI, that used to be an easier guess to make. Now…

      Maybe a more accurate but still flawed method is to count how many active users over a certain number of years old. That does throw out new human users, and ignores bought old accounts, but it might weed some of the bots that get cycled around.