The usual thing to do when you lack reliable data to answer a certain question is to refrain from making broad, sweeping statements on the basis of data that don’t support it.

I’m not claiming to be some data analyst with accurate data, literally the first paragraph has me adding like 700,000 people out of nowhere. This is a just a vague estimate to compare the size of Lemmy and Reddit since I haven’t seen anyone do it before.

Other people are neither responsible for providing you with the evidence for whatever you want to say, nor does making bullshit claims make other people responsible for disproving them.

I never said they were?? I just offered to edit my post if someone had a better solution than mine since they take issue with my numbers.

it’s kind of pointless to argue about the exact ratio

That’s literally my point. It’s not really feasible to come to a more accurate number, so after listing all the ways the number is inaccurate I offered to let them take a jab at it instead and see for themselves just now difficult it is.

also, “stupid smelly nerds” is a meta reference to a copypasta where someone vents about their experience in a technical field as a noob without being ‘correct’ in their opinions. I imagine you missed that part of my edit and took it too seriously.
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011

that’s why I used the 2022 number, the “projected” 2026 number is 1.5billion

sigh I just have to do the math for this one, I just NEED to know the actual number.

according to reddit they had 1 billion monthly active users in 2022, then they stopped reporting it for I assume stock reasons 🤷‍♀️

we know Lemmy monthly active users is ~40,000. I added all of the totals from piefed statistics page for Lemmy + Piefed + Mbin https://piefed.social/statistics?software=Lemmy

so that’s 1,000,000,000 vs 40,000

that’s a ratio of 25,000 to 1. For every one Lemmy user there is 25,000 people on Reddit. that’s 0.004%

if you could, what would you do about it? split up steam into 2 steams? take peoples game libraries and separate it in 2 halves like a divorce?

the “instant messaging” line at the top is really funny in this context

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PS5 emulation is already here. They’ve been advancing it at an insane pace.
All we need is the GTA6 game files and oh boy they’ve been trying. Sony has been releasing update after update desperately trying to stop people from finding a new entrypoint and no shot it’s gonna stop people with this many fans so upset at them.

We’re about to see some nerds pull a GTA6 piracy any% speedrun and it’s going to be hilarious

At the very least I GUARANTEE it’ll happen before it comes out on PC. The only thing I’m worried about is if someone puts malware in the crack.

I will probably pirate GTA 6 in a couple years

with all the AI assisted Sony hacks and PS5 emulation advancing so rapidly you probably won’t need to wait that long

on a related note, do you consider the fruit fly brain model torture chambers to be ethical? Would you consider it ethical if it was a human brain?

why or why not?