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For the biggest ones: How many of those active users are bots, advertisers, and scammers? I'd guess about half on Facebook.

Also, is it considered "active" if you have a dormant account but have the app installed on your phone and it still watches what you're doing? What if you only use it to communicate with family because it's the only internet they understand?

Further, what about duplicate accounts or "secretive" secondary accounts so you can click on the depraved stuff you like without that showing in your public feed?

I feel like the real numbers for the big ones are massively inflated by issues like these.

The Fediverse is small enough to as of yet not be affected. Once it gets large enough, it will have all of this, too.

Haha, now show us a map of the size of different stars compared to Sol (ours, in the local solar system).

Sometimes the small stars and communites are the most important. ;)

I'm surprised Snapchat is that popular. It's not something I hear about too much anymore.

Damn, if only Spez didn't have fucked up Reddit. I even wanted to invest in that IPO, but now I'm not going to.

I like to imagine a little escape pod coming out of the Reddit bubble and drifting in to the Lemmy dot representing my migration.

Seriously, who on earth uses facebook? Lol

The only website on this graphic that has some actual value (apart from the fediverse of course) is youtube.

Look we are on the map!

There's some merit to whether those daily active accounts are people, and the quality of the folks engaged as those accounts.

Twitter has more users, and a lot of static too, like people posting pictures of their paninis. I'm also sure there's a large percentage of automated/bot accounts on Twitter; they're active, but not posting anything you'll care about. Same goes for Facebook and Reddit.... There's more but I'll stop there. I'm sure you all get the picture.

Fact is, you can have 5 billion daily active user accounts, and still have very little content anyone cares about. A nontrivial number of posts are news updates either from media outlets or business accounts/companies that are simply a mass posted and shortened version of some PR message or something with a link to the information. Simply bringing the information to people where they are, no matter how few on Twitter or FB are actually reading what they post.

I feel like Lemmy has a lot of content because the majority of accounts are real people, so there's a better capability for discussion. It may be fewer overall people, by comparison, but it is, in many ways, more valuable and entertaining.

IDK, I'm just some guy.

LET'S GOOO

You got to think at least 2/3 of Reddit is Bots right

Happy to be part of the top 1% in this case.

I would say a good billion of Facebook users are either highly inactive, actually inactivated but Facebook is still counting them, scammers and porn bots, and dead people. Many people made an account in like 2011 and promptly forgot their password and never logged in again I'm sure. And lord knows Facebook isn't honest about anything.

I'm surprised Twitter is so comparatively small but it's also a weird site in that you literally talk into a void, at least Facebook you know your uncle is reading your post or whatever.

I would have loved to see the parts that are not under the US-American influence. What are Asian, African or South Americans using?

Damn! I didn't know so many people still use Facebook. But it still doesn't sound right. I definitely don't feel like 37.5% of Earth's population uses Facebook.

Surprised to see LinkedIn's 930 million MAU! I might have heard someone mention it irl like 2 times my whole life? But maybe that's cuz I'm not in the job market yet.