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there aren't plenty of people here. we need more. we need to be a better alternative.
Looks like there are about 500 monthly users across the main instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Reddit has about 430 million monthly users as of October last year.
If it needs a network effect of about 1% for people to ditch Reddit for Lemmy (like it did for Myspace โ Facebook), that means we need about 4.3 million... so about 4,299,500 more. Better get working on some outreach ๐
Just a note that active monthly on lemmy, means you've posted or commented. Reddit might be using that more loosely, as in someone who just views the site. In that case their numbers might be highly inflated, include webcrawlers, etc.
Oh good point, Reddit are almost definitely including people who just vote, and probably people who just view ๐คฆ Is it easy to get "unique 'people' who looked at it" numbers off Lemmy instances, to make a fairer comparison? (Not optimistic that Viacom will be releasing numbers of how many humans they think are actually using Reddit any time soon..)
For logged in users, there is a table that checks if you've read a post, so it'd be possible yes. But IMO just viewing something shouldn't count as "activity".
You're saying you don't want to add metrics just to have a dick-swinging contest with Reddit's fake numbers? Confusing ๐
@dessalines @triplenadir are reactions to Lemmy posts from other fedi-platforms counted? Like what I am doing right now ๐
I think we have this as an open issue, but haven't done anything with it yet. I wouldn't mind reactions as long as they're activitypub compatible.
@dessalines I think you misunderstood, I meant to ask whether comments and votes to lemmy post from other platforms are counted in Lemmy's activities?
Is it reactions, or votes? Afaik only lemmy votes are federated. What other platform has up and downvotes?
@dessalines Since you mention it, one issue I find with the federation of votes is that from Friendica I can see who the voters are, while I assume Lemmy users may expect their votes to be secret.
Yep, votes are anonymous in lemmy.