Is the number of users in all of Lemmy tiny compared to the number of users in Reddit?
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Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.
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You can see some stats here.
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You can see some stats here.
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Plot twist: reddit is one guy and all his bots.
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Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.
Atleast we are growing steadily. Never heard of misskey tho
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Daily I think. It's an automated thing.
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Atleast we are growing steadily. Never heard of misskey tho
Yup, and Reddit started in 2005 (which is 2 decades ago now) with its large migration in 2010. Lemmy only really got going in 2023, and it's growing
Misskey is a Mastodon style platform, that is popular in Japan and existed from a while back. They added activitypub support in 2018
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Plot twist: reddit is one guy and all his bots.
Interestingly
https://lemmy.ca/comment/5057563
The original reddit was closer to hackernews than the generic site it is now. Not only that but spez has admitted that the original traffic was artificial, by which I mean, the owners themselves were creating fake engagement through various means, such as scraping and cross-posting content from sites like digg via sockpuppets to appear that the site had way more traffic than it had.
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bot users? yes!
human users? well, yes.
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You can see some stats here.
1337 you say
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bot users? yes!
human users? well, yes.
Assholes? Yes too
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Lemmy (also mastodon, in effect fediverse) is about quality and interaction, rather than consumption. So userbase being “tiny” is a feature. Here, your posts aren’t buried under karma farming accounts, your comments actually lead to discussions and get replies.
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
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1337 you say
Where do you see this chart?
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Where do you see this chart?
On my phone
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Atleast we are growing steadily. Never heard of misskey tho
Misskey is like "the default" fediverse software for Japanese and (Asian) ACG (Animation-comic-games) communities.
This side of fediverse is relatively big, but almost their community rarely reach out Western fediverse mostly due to language and law-related stuff. They have unique photography, online comic market, and and various creative centric community that rarely found on mainstream Western fediverse.
In fact, before Mastodon.social, the biggest fediverse instance is Japanese -- Pawoo.net. At that time, it was managed by Pixiv (Japanese equivalent of DeviantArt), but later sold to random corpo, the moderation collapse, and now abandoned by its community.
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On my phone
Lol thanks for clarifying
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1337 you say
Haha. Obvs Lemmy is only for the leet.
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Lemmy (also mastodon, in effect fediverse) is about quality and interaction, rather than consumption. So userbase being “tiny” is a feature. Here, your posts aren’t buried under karma farming accounts, your comments actually lead to discussions and get replies.
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
There are plenty of pointless posts and comments here daily, but let’s hope for a quality future
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Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.
It should be noted that social media companies like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc all have major incentives to inflate their user counts (with bots, or counting inactive users). Those user counts are the product that they're selling to advertisers to set up on their platform.
We don't have that incentive, in fact its the opposite, we'd rather have less and more active users, as more users require more moderation resources and time.
