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Lemmy at Scale (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

It seems yesterday, Lemmy hit 916k posts, 6.2m comments in the last day (03/07/2023).

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30

I was really impressed by this, so wanted to figure out how this compares to Reddit. I found some suggestions it was 830k to 1.1m in 2020. 2 billion comments per year, so 5.47m comments a day.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/l28rxs/how_many_posts_on_reddit_a_day/

Does anyone have any idea if this information is accurate, or I am missing something? Feel free to shred the numbers to bits or offer more accurate numbers to improve understanding of this.

If this is accurate, that is ridiculous, and I'm not sure if I believe it is that close yet. Obviously things will have changed from 2020, but for Lemmy to be operating at that scale already. That is impressive.

Even if Lemmy was a 10th of the size of Reddit, that would be incredible.

Onwards and upwards, I guess. Lot's of content to be created, lots of discussion to be had. LFG!

Edit: @[email protected] provided the following link: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

It seems total posts have gone up by around 50k and 30k over 2 days, so average of 40k. Around 4.8% of 2020 levels. That is awesome and nothing to be sniffed at. A lot bigger than I anticipated.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another thought I had was some of the Active posts here get around 1.5k to 2k upvotes. Often on reddit, that is around 20-30k. So Lemmy could be around a 10th of that size.

Potentially in terms of activity, there is the passive consumption side of reddit (which is massive), and the active contributor side. Even if Lemmy is doing well in terms of the active contributor side, that is very useful to draw in the passive consumers. Potentially many want something known and trusted and maybe are less tech savvy. They may follow good content.