Is lemmy supposed to be a reddit replacement? What is the user count vs reddit? Is it worth it sticking around? I usually just casually scroll and read interesting random things, to which I may or may not get involved in, however, here my home page is empty and I probably have to subscribe to pages in order to see anything there.
I’m not sure instances actually publish their user counts. You can measure by activity, which adds up to maybe 10 events a second. If you could figure out the average rate per user you could get an estimate from that.