On the other hand maybe it's... healthy to stop looking at Lemmy as an "alternative" to anything and start thinking about it as this small forum you like to use sometimes. Worked for me in the 90s, works for me now.

[–] brot@feddit.org 36 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit is calculating its MAU differently. They seem to be counting even not-logged-in users coming from search engines - without that numbers like "1 billion monthly active users" really don't make any sense and even that is a crazy metric, if you think about it. There is no way that 1/8 of humanity is browsing on Reddit in a month. Lemmy seems to count only users who are doing something (submitting, commenting, upvoting)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If they're doing that, it means they're counting unique IPs, which is a ridiculous metric. Even lemmy would have easily 10x the MAU with it.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 9 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Again, doesn't matter. There's data on logged in users and it's also many orders of magnitude larger than Fedi.

By most independent metrics Reddit has more visits than Netflix. Than Pornhub, while we're at it. It's one of the top ten most visited sites on the Internet, and by most accounts it's actually grown since the "exodus".

I don't use it and I do like it here, but the idea that Lemmy is somehow encroaching on it is absurd. And self-defeating, too. Lemmy and its satellites are very worthwhile for what they are... a gnat in the wind as a Reddit alternative. Better to measure them on their own merits.

[–] cabinet_sanchez@midwest.social 10 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, see my rant elsewhere in this comment section, but I personally do not desire Reddit 2.0. More users here will be good, but if Lemmy ever becomes the size of Reddit, even with its differences, it will not be what we want it to be anymore

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Agreed, but the proportion of users that contributed and made it a positive experience there was significantly smaller.

Quality over quantity.

[–] deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

reddit has the advantage that you need it to make google useful these days

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 11 hours ago

It doesn't really matter. For one thing, MAU and unique users are different metrics and they're both valid, so if Lemmy is counting verified uniques they can just call it that.

For another, I looked at the data for logged in users and Fedi's MAU is 0.125% of their daily logged in users, so the point stands regardless.

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