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.
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So, when the war starts, each one of us has to take on 1000 people and ~24,000 bots?!
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.
I don't think reddit had an age group, sure most people are probably in their 20s and 30s but there are plenty in their 60s and 70s too
... and what proportions of lemmy vs reddit users are bots or alt / sock puppet accounts?
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Quality over quantity
whereβs the quality?
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I truly doubt Reddit is actually growing if you discount for bots, but I reckon it may be wishful thinking.
that's why I used the 2022 number, the "projected" 2026 number is 1.5billion
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"People"
Who gives a shit
Indeed, 'tis a silly place.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
In my book you dozens of guys and gals are so much cooler than the Reddit masses.
I like those odds
But are we able to parse out how many of those active users are bots?
And they are not missed.
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.
The Fediverse is somewhat self-regulating in that area - instances enshittifying would lead to both defederation and a mass user exodus to non-enshittified instances.
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We can still take them as they are fat and spineless
"People"
Does it bother you?