…that was meant to be a joke. I had a gut feeling I should have used a tone indicator. My bad

Not really. Here’s some statistics from reddit itself.

If you even have minimal activity, according to reddit recap you’ll be in the top 1% of reddit users for that year. With that one can conclude that reddits true userbase, can not exceed 5 million.

Reddit in its usercount counts all accounts, including banned ones that have long been replaced by ban evasion accounts. This and the sites old age leads to grossly inflated numbers.

Want even more damning numbers for reddit? Well the maximum participation for r/Place (read, everyone who even as much as viewed the event. Not even participating.) Was 1.9 million. Considering how intensly it was promoted it is likely people would have clicked on the giant banner notification. That means out of the less than 5 million active users, 3.1 million didn’t even glance at the giant event that has been promoted with massive popups, banners and shiny symbols over the reddit page.

To add to this, a supermajority of reddit users are inactive. Recap has shown that even with minimal activity, you end up in the top 1% of reddit users.

Based on that one can calculate that 99% (provably more but reddit recap doesn’t go smaller than 1% on display) are inactive accounts, which means reddits true size lies at around 5 million or less. Less than 5 times Lemmy’s size.

There’s a reason why mentioning the word “Lemmy” on reddit gets you a shadowban now. Because they’re legitimate competition.

Not to mention a supermajority of reddit users are inactive. Recap has shown that even with minimal activity, you end up in the top 1% of reddit users.

That means reddit has roughly 5 million active users. Meanwhile nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active too.

People need to realize that it’s okay for smaller forums to exist. Imagine if we measured fucking teamspeak servers by numbers. Would be just as ridiculous

Ah yes this will totally discourage piracy

“At risk of getting banned” ah yes, from the subscription based service that I wouldn’t pay for out of principle

Seriously I didn’t even know about Stremio up until now

And apparently it was better than the local internet provider

Unfortunately it did not stop them from trying over here