So, I got site-wide banned from reddit a while ago due to using the word “purge” on a post and since then I have been using Lemmy more and more. However, one thing that I have noticed is that Lemmy is less active than reddit.
For example, the most comments I have seen a post get is 200, where in reddit I’m confident it would get much more.
Sure, their bots on their own likely dwarf us as well, but even taking then out reddit is dramatically bigger than us.
Lemmy MAUs is in the thousands.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances (35k active users)