Is the number of users in all of Lemmy tiny compared to the number of users in Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Alice@beehaw.org 15 points 6 days ago

Plot twist: reddit is one guy and all his bots.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Interestingly

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.

this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025

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