So I just simply compared the top posts of lemmy r/all and reddits r/all. Currently this month’s top 5 r/all posts are somewhere between 228k - 142k upvotes, while lemmy’s are between 2.2k and 1.7k.
The monthly active user count of reddit is over a billion, while that of lemmy is 1.2 million. If we just compare them by these metrics, reddit has 1000x the users but 100x engagement. And this also held true when I compared the meme subreddits using the same metric, but news subreddit was an outlier where the subscriber to upvote ratio was equal between them.
It’s extremely crude calculation, but since I observed this pattern, I felt I need to share this somewhere. What I feel is that as social media platform gets larger, the number of lurkers, people who don’t engage, increase. could there be any other reason?
People go to Lemmy because they got banned on Reddit or because their communities fell apart because of reedits bullshit or because they noticed that the feed is completely jacked with bots and disinformation.
In other words, the people going to Lemmy are generally highly active users. Which would probably worry Reddit if they were concerned about actually getting content from their members instead of AI and bots.