Just in case anyone here was wondering how Reddit’s numbers are looking these days…
Data and visuals from https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit
Just in case anyone here was wondering how Reddit’s numbers are looking these days…
Data and visuals from https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit
Something like 80% of reddit users don’t interact at all and like 80% don’t comment. So a tiny portion of reddit users actually generate comments.
Comments don’t tend to be linear, more comments drive more people to engage which means more comments, so it forms a near exponential curve
Other websites HAVE seen and explosion in activity. Look at a similar graph for lemmy and you’ll see a huge rise. Maybe not 1 to 1, but enough that if you extrapolate the same to other websites you can account for all the missing users.