Yeah there's no way reddit has a billion users. Not human ones. They're doing everything they can to push people away. I'd be surprised if their user growth wasn't actually negative.
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
102 points (90.5% liked)
Today I Learned
32347 readers
247 users here now
What did you learn today? Share it with us!
We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.
The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:
Rules (interactive)
Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.
** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**
Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.
Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.
Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.
Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.
Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.
That's it.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.
Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.
Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.
For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.
Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.
Let everyone have their own content.
Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.
Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.
Partnered Communities
You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.
Community Moderation
For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
"People"
There are dozens of us.
DOZENS.
Here, have my upvote. It's worth 25,000. πͺ
I like it here, I came over from Reddit years ago and the only time I've been back is when searching for random tech or niche hobby stuff and a reddit thread shows up, but that's about to end too due to the login thing.
I'd rather hang out with a small group of friends than be alone in a massive drunken rave. π€·ββοΈ
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.
But are we able to parse out how many of those active users are bots?
In other words, you're saying that every Lemmy user is worth 25,000 Redditors.
At least!
I think you're worth 25,001, for sure.
Who gives a shit
In my book you dozens of guys and gals are so much cooler than the Reddit masses.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
... and what proportions of lemmy vs reddit users are bots or alt / sock puppet accounts?
Exactly!
(Sent from my iBot account #71,902)
There isn't one human out of ten with a reddit account.
I'm not sure that Facebook reach that in its better days.
Taking into consideration a quarter of the population didn't have an access to the internet in 2025 (according to the world bank data), and considering that Reddit is not well know in many european place, that cannot be.
Can confirm that Reddit is not well known outside of a minority of users in Central Europe. I would say this also goes for China/Russia (when they actually able to access it) and i guess most of Africa, not only because of the language barrier. Reddit is very US-centric, and I'd say more than 300m worldwide is streching it.
They're deliberately pushing hard in India, apparently.
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.
Quality over quantity
whereβs the quality?
It was you all along.
TenForward
Coming soonβ’
"People"
And they are not missed.
But how many of those are actual human users?
Or barely human?
the monthly active on lemmy is steadily going down yet the number of new users is rocketing up
who the fuck is that?
and without authentication by irl id we'll never know but i guess you be "muh privacy!!!!!"
Just like everything AI, that used to be an easier guess to make. Now...
Maybe a more accurate but still flawed method is to count how many active users over a certain number of years old. That does throw out new human users, and ignores bought old accounts, but it might weed some of the bots that get cycled around.
Probably that same percentage
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.
Does it bother you?
Identical trash populations. One site is smaller. Yβall are gonna fart in a circle and whiff it up about how superior you are to Redditors now.
Love that for you.
I don't see a problem with this.
Hahaha why are you even here? To be butthurt?
For breaking news and interesting facts, are you actually unaware of what this site has to offer or does that only happen when youβre trying to be a cool guy?