nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active
This is false. There’s about a 10:1 ratio of Lemmy accounts registered to lemmy accounts posting comments.
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Sheeple@lemmy.world 11 months agoNot to mention a supermajority of reddit users are inactive. Recap has shown that even with minimal activity, you end up in the top 1% of reddit users.
That means reddit has roughly 5 million active users. Meanwhile nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active too.
ericjmorey@programming.dev 11 months ago
Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I have five lemmy accounts and only post from two. That checks out.
legios@aussie.zone 11 months ago
A couple of years ago I ended up in the 1% because of one single thing I posted 2 weeks after I signed up purely to generate some rage because so many subs needed minimum karma… Can completely attest to this.
poppy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I suppose this is related to your “users are inactive” point but I also feel like it’s more common on Reddit to have multiple/alt accounts. Hell, in my time on Reddit I think I made 7+ accounts.
Nelots@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Why? I found like that would be more common on Lemmy than anything. There is an actual point in using different instances here, I don’t see any point whatsoever on Reddit.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To keep your interests separate, to prevent doxing, to break up your post history, etc.
Nelots@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fair, but these are still all perfectly valid reasons to do so on Lemmy as well, so I still think it makes more sense to do so here than on Reddit.
trafficnab@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The 90-9-1 rule, 1% of users create content, for 9% of users to interact with (upvote, comment, whatever), while 90% exclusively lurk