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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's definitely a shame. Let's see how it goes, but I'm about to create a !usdefaultism somewhere just to list those occurrences

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Less than half, that actually surprises me. I honestly assume most people I meet online are Yanks.

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think a lot of people talk like Yanks, or just don’t clarify. I’ve had conversations with other Brits where we both assume the other is a Yank.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Happens to me a lot too, when actually none of us are from the USA

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could see the numbers being a little different for Lemmy, but I don't expect that they're wildly different.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I seem to remember Germans were like 10-20% at one point, but that might have evened out over time

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Would make sense with how they handled the migration from /r/ich_iel

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Sie haben gerufen?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Nowadays, other countries also have Internet and can speak English

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

That's reddit, not Lemmy?

[–] imaqtpie@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yoink

Grabbing that for future reference. That's the stats from 2024? Is there like a link to the actual source? Significantly more US-centered then I thought, especially since one would assume the numbers were even more skewed 5-10 years ago.

Lemmy is much more weighted towards an international userbase in my experience, which can be frustrating for the American audience at times, but also has its benefits.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 1 points 6 hours ago

which can be frustrating for the American audience at times

I get it but that sounds so weird to me, lol

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't seem like a super reliable source. I just grabbed the first result I googled.

I got it from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1bg323c/oc_reddit_traffic_by_country_2024/

It lists worldpopulationreview.com on the image.

There this statista link which has similar numbers and sounds more detailed, but still doesn't have sources available. Google's AI points to statista.

So nothing definitive. But I certainly expect that most users are from the US.

[–] imaqtpie@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You inspired me to do a bit more digging. I found the page on world population review.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/reddit-users-by-country

Which lists this site as the true source. Looks pretty legit to me. Seems to be a paid service.

https://www.semrush.com/website/reddit.com/overview/

They've got US traffic listed around 51% for December 2024, so it's actually gone up significantly compared to the March 2023 figures cited by world population review

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/reddit-traffic-report-march-2023pdf/257621808

Went from 2.32 billion US visits in March 23 to 3.17 billion in December 24, while Indian visitors actually declined significantly in the same period.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

This is awesome; I’m too tired to do it right now - but I’d I remember I’d really like to normalise this against country populations to see what percent of a nation is a Reddit user.

At a glance, I’m pretty sure Australia is punching well above its weight - if nothing else.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would you have such stats for LW? Really curious as it feels more balanced here

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With the data from https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list,

Honestly neither of these give a very good impression of where users are from, but I don't think lemmy collects that data. Maybe if there was some way to check which languages people have listed?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Yes, it's a bit difficult to infer any trend indeed, could be thousands of 1 person instances.

Languages don't really work either, people tend to just speak English on the Internet. That's why I was asking Serinus, I thought maybe on LW they would have some data

Actually I remember this data from lemmy.zip:

https://lemmy.zip/post/29448608?scrollToComments=true

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

It's actually the second or third thing I mention about Lemmy if it ever comes up in conversation. Sometimes I feel like just dropping it because of it.

[–] Cliff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen it, but seems abandoned, and not a fan of yet another community on LW

The mod still seems to be active, last comment made 19 hours ago