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I mean, I too prefer being on lemmy over reddit. I was just wondering about the EUs current push for open source alternatives, if they can ever succeed in their pursuit.

Yeah, without a recommendation engine, or a for profit model, fediverse is destined to stay an enthusiast space.

Truth is, fediverse's more fragile than people wanna Admit, that's my opinion from using it for a week. Firstly, everything works on grants and donations, there's no for profit model that's running these servers. That's bad because running social media is expensive.

Second fediverse's still utility first, user experience second priority. there's no recommendation algorithm on mastodon or most other fediverse servers.

Third, this is coming from a security stand point, fediverse is vulnerable to both centralised architecture, and decentralised architecture attacks.

Also it's just, for 90% of people, if they want to have a website like tiktok, they will just go to tiktok. Especially in case of tiktok. Very few people want to try stuff that's not as fully baked as corporate owned social media

Exactly, fediverse tikrok gives a lot of "eco-friendly cigarette" vibes.

Semrush is supposed to be not that inaccurate. It's a data analytics platform. I don't have the subscription to it to verify this myself, but it's a huge issue if they are posting inaccurate information.

So it's the thing with all big social media giants? Why it's surprising is because with 40-35k mau, lemmy feels like it's thriving, especially compared to reddit

Yeaa, I misread the information. 1.2m is the total users. Real mau is 40k, 35k specifically for this month

https://backlinko.com/reddit-users

Here's where I found this

One of the weirder information I found. The website seems to have quoted semrush here, so idk, but monthly unique users from America is more than America's population

When you put it that way, bots sound like a reasonable answer. But would crawlbots actually prop up monthly active users that much? I thought it might be like 10%.

Yeah, but bots does not sound right. That would mean 90% of reddits monthly active users don't even exist. 50% is a more pallatable number, even close to 60 would have been okay.

Why I am finding it hard to digest is because reddit already is suffering from a bot problem that's visible. Like even the engagements are sometimes artificial, especially the political ones. So if you say 90% of reddit mau is bots based on this, then the number would be closer to 95.