I am pretty convinced these stats are low because I remember the early years of Reddit feeling much less active than the Threadiverse does now and I have to assume Reddit’s MAUs in 2008-9 were at least above 100K.

On the other hand, Reddit's reported users numbers are way too high for the actual activity on the website. I follow /r/BuyfromEU quite closely since the sub blew up, and it's definitely not that active for a place with supposedly 150k subs

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Great point, absolutely! I don't subscribe to the "dead internet theory" but my time on the Fediverse has also convinced me that all of the corporate platform's traffic numbers are almost certainly heavily inflated (probably to justify higher ad prices).

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

Investor fraud is basically the entire business model of well basically everything anymore. I also wouldn't put them past it to have ai generated comments.