Bots? Chances are a lot of the traffic on Reddit that is of lurkers is just bots being used to gin the number of "unique" visitors each day. Actually, now that I think on it and reflect how Reddit went decidedly sideways when the IPO dropped, it's got to be bots..
Yeah, but bots does not sound right. That would mean 90% of reddits monthly active users don't even exist. 50% is a more pallatable number, even close to 60 would have been okay.
Why I am finding it hard to digest is because reddit already is suffering from a bot problem that's visible. Like even the engagements are sometimes artificial, especially the political ones. So if you say 90% of reddit mau is bots based on this, then the number would be closer to 95.
They could be defrauding investors
With Lemmy/Piefed being much smaller, I comment a lot more than I would on reddit since I know my voice will likely be heard. Outside of niche subreddits, posting a comment was like yelling into the void. It sort of all came down to how early you made it into a thread on whether anyone would actually see what you said
I think thread/forum-like platforms do a lot better at a small to medium sized community size
Not surprising. People are saying the same thing about x vs. Bluesky
So it's the thing with all big social media giants? Why it's surprising is because with 40-35k mau, lemmy feels like it's thriving, especially compared to reddit
They won't show your posts to people even if they follow you. Also they have all the reason in the world to not be good at filtering out bots from their statistics. Also they've been playing games with what the metrics are
People go to Lemmy because they got banned on Reddit or because their communities fell apart because of reedits bullshit or because they noticed that the feed is completely jacked with bots and disinformation.
In other words, the people going to Lemmy are generally highly active users. Which would probably worry Reddit if they were concerned about actually getting content from their members instead of AI and bots.
This makes sense to me if you consider the type of person who is likely to leave reddit is also less likely to be just a passive consumer of content. I imagine in ten years time we'll have two kinds of "social" media: decentralized activitypub discussion-based networks, and commercial entertainment platforms that might have comments but little else in the way of connecting.
Another stat I like to highlight is the moderator-to-user ratio on Lemmy (and the rest of the Fediverse) is similarly around 10x more improved.
One of the weirder information I found. The website seems to have quoted semrush here, so idk, but monthly unique users from America is more than America's population
I'll admit that I'm not that updated on recent changes but reddit used to be open about the vote counts being intentionally inaccurate. I believe this at a point started to include scaling the vote count so that the average popular post would have 10-20k or so up votes, even if the actual vote count would be much higher.
So this would make it almost impossible to make any meaningful conclusions from vote count / active users alone.
Yes, they made vote scaling more aggressive after that one Battlefront dev got downvoted into oblivion.
Lemmy has like 40k MAU. Where did you get the 1.2M?
Yeaa, I misread the information. 1.2m is the total users. Real mau is 40k, 35k specifically for this month
Yeaa, I misread the information. 1.2 is the total users. Real mau is 40k, 35k specifically for this month
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