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We're what.... 1% of the size of Reddit? Less? (Lemmy+Piefed, not the whole Fediverse). To set up custom APIs and annoyances for what would probably be almost insta-banned doesn't seem worth it compared to Reddit who will happily allow you to send to near everyone. Hell a basic NSFW subreddit is probably magnitudes larger than all of us.
sigh I just have to do the math for this one, I just NEED to know the actual number.
according to reddit they had 1 billion monthly active users in 2022, then they stopped reporting it for I assume stock reasons 🤷♀️
we know Lemmy monthly active users is ~40,000. I added all of the totals from piefed statistics page for Lemmy + Piefed + Mbin https://piefed.social/statistics?software=Lemmy
so that's 1,000,000,000 vs 40,000
that's a ratio of 25,000 to 1. For every one Lemmy user there is 25,000 people on Reddit. that's 0.004%
Much, much less. Reddit has some fraction of a billion active users, going by it's status as one of the big world platforms, while we have some fraction of 10,000, so more like 0.001%.
Lemmy + Piefed (+mbin if you want) is something like 38,000 users.
Users in general, or active users? Reddit probably has tens of billions of inactive accounts.
If it is active users, and Lemmy-Piefed is suddenly growing, that's great, though.
That's "monthly active users". Though a bit different from how reddit counts their MAU as Lemmy can't report on logged out users (since that info isn't collected or shared between instances) and doesn't report on users logged in but not interacting (you must vote, comment, or post within the last month to count).
The fediverse is growing but slowly, and is nowhere near the peak of 3 years ago. But no one expected it to stay.
If you check the Lemmy history you'll find it very slowly losing users, but piefed is gaining users faster than Lemmy is losing them.
Unfortunately fediverse.observer shut down recently so it's hard to find the past stats these days.
I have no idea but my gut says not even one-thousandth