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 5 hours ago

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

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago

That's reddit, not Lemmy?

[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 points 37 minutes 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 27 minutes ago

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

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 0 points 5 hours ago

Nowadays, other countries also have Internet and can speak English

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours 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 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] weker01@sh.itjust.works 1 points 30 minutes ago

Sie haben gerufen?

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

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

[–] imaqtpie@midwest.social 4 points 11 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.