At this point, it’s become a bit meme on Reddit to share the creepy or disgusting DMs you receive. However, nothing like that has happened to me here yet, even though I’ve been active for the equivalent of three or four of those pervy chat invitations on Reddit. I’m no less active here.
Lemmy is SO so so so much smaller. They have to be real desperate to try here, especially when reddit is a thing that exists. Everybody say, “thank you, reddit!”
That’s probably the reason, yeah.
We’re what… 1% of the size of Reddit? Less? (Lemmy+Piefed, not the whole Fediverse). To set up custom APIs and annoyances for what would probably be almost insta-banned doesn’t seem worth it compared to Reddit who will happily allow you to send to near everyone. Hell a basic NSFW subreddit is probably magnitudes larger than all of us.
Much, much less. Reddit has some fraction of a billion active users, going by it’s status as one of the big world platforms, while we have some fraction of 10,000, so more like 0.001%.
Lemmy + Piefed (+mbin if you want) is something like 38,000 users.
Users in general, or active users? Reddit probably has tens of billions of inactive accounts.
If it is active users, and Lemmy-Piefed is suddenly growing, that’s great, though.
That’s “monthly active users”. Though a bit different from how reddit counts their MAU as Lemmy can’t report on logged out users (since that info isn’t collected or shared between instances) and doesn’t report on users logged in but not interacting (you must vote, comment, or post within the last month to count).
The fediverse is growing but slowly, and is nowhere near the peak of 3 years ago. But no one expected it to stay.
If you check the Lemmy history you’ll find it very slowly losing users, but piefed is gaining users faster than Lemmy is losing them.
Unfortunately fediverse.observer shut down recently so it’s hard to find the past stats these days.
I have no idea but my gut says not even one-thousandth