[victorp13]

Generic question: I see a lot of news articles stating that WSB has "10 million members". Does being a 'member' go beyond clicking the 'join' button on that subreddit? If so it's more like a 'follow this channel', isn't it?

[mgerullis]

If you don’t have a certain number of karma points you cannot even post there, I guess the largest part there is only lurking.

[asdff]

It is striking how just about any subreddit is several orders of magnitude larger than their average engagement. It's seemingly no matter the size and affects huge and tiny subeditors. I guess there really are that many bot accounts on reddit.

[bradlys]

Many people (including myself) will just not post. If you want to see what’s going on with a subreddit in your feed, you have to subscribe/join it. You can manually visit all your favorite subreddits but that can be very tedious and doesn’t fit the “news feed” type of behavior that people want to use.

[eindiran]

See: the 1% rule and participation inequality. It seems to be a constant of human engagement on internet platforms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_inequality

[stjohnswarts]

About 95% of reddit users are lurkers and not commentators. Just there for the lolz and linked articles/pictures/memes

[hammock]

What does it matter?

[SyzygistSix]

Correct. Although that sounds more like the entire number of reddit users, not just WallStreetBets.

[akie]

No, it's indeed the number of users in that subreddit alone. The daily threads there regularly amass 100k comments. Reddit has grown really quite large.

[say_it_as_it_is]

Reddit is much larger than you think. It has over 52 million daily active users and 50+ billion monthly views.

https://www.redditinc.com/

[dunefox]

Oh sweet summer child.

[vmception]

just WallStreetBets