The pop_os subreddit has many Pop!_OS-specific help requests per day. I’m kind of surprised there aren’t more here on the Fediverse/lemmy side of the community.

I browse looking for ways to help, and after having shifted my attention from Reddit to the Fediverse I feel like I could be helping out more. Why aren’t there more requests here?

  • @TheOneWithTheHairEnglish
    13•1 year ago

    Short answer, it’s traffic.

    If you want an imperfect and unofficial guestimate, here goes:

    Lemmy.world has 2.48K users / day

    According to Statistica “in April 2023 approximately 1.7 billion visits”, so dividing 1,700,000,000/30 = 56,666,666.6667 as an average per day.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/443332/reddit-monthly-visitors/

    Yes, there’s probably days with higher traffic (likely weekends), but this gives us an idea of visits.

    56,666,666/2,840 = 19,953.0514085

    So every single post here would be nearly 20K posts to Reddit, because Reddit has about 20K times more visits in a day using that one month as a baseline. It’s probably not perfectly accurate, but it’s a number to work with.

    I visited https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/ and saw 15 posts from today. I’ll use that as an unofficial average.

    19953.0514085 / 15 = 1,330.20342723 (number of days)

    1330.20342723 / 365 = 3.64439295132 (number of years)

    If you get 1 post every 3 and half years, you’re keeping up with Reddit.

    Off-topic:

    I just saw the mascot redesign and wow. Just wow. Not in a good wow way.