Reddit says it has 330 million monthly active users (source). Media outlets like CNBC and Variety trust those numbers so I'll consider them good enough for this project. I downloaded the full monthly datasets for posts and comments from the ever-amazing pushshift.io and used R to count how many distinct users make at least one submission or comment in a typical month. I found posts and comments from 6.4 million users. That means more than 98% of Reddit's monthly active users don't make a single post or comment over the course of a typical month. I made the viz in Illustrator.
TrueBirch on March 25th, 2019 at 19:42 UTC »
Reddit says it has 330 million monthly active users (source). Media outlets like CNBC and Variety trust those numbers so I'll consider them good enough for this project. I downloaded the full monthly datasets for posts and comments from the ever-amazing pushshift.io and used R to count how many distinct users make at least one submission or comment in a typical month. I found posts and comments from 6.4 million users. That means more than 98% of Reddit's monthly active users don't make a single post or comment over the course of a typical month. I made the viz in Illustrator.
Cedar_Frond on March 25th, 2019 at 22:27 UTC »
Fine, I'll comment. Hi fellow lurkers!
Yup still don't have anything substantial to add the the conversation illgobacktolurkingnow
Stegoserious on March 25th, 2019 at 22:37 UTC »
I'm probably in the top 5% of longest lurkers who are also daily users.
Love the conversations on Reddit and love the content. Just never really feel like my input is a value add to the conversation. And I'm ok with that.
This is my first post and nobody will see it. And that's ok with me.