Lemmy (also mastodon, in effect fediverse) is about quality and interaction, rather than consumption. So userbase being “tiny” is a feature. Here, your posts aren’t buried under karma farming accounts, your comments actually lead to discussions and get replies.
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits
are you using an app to do this?
No OC, but i “read you” on fdroid. Imo its the best option I’ve found for mobile.
On desktop there are a lot of options but i dont have a sigular recomendation.
Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?
I’d like to know myself.
Plenty of blog sites support rss by just adding /index, /feed, /atom to the sites names Example: https://www.ntietz.com/atom.xml https://chriscoyier.net/feed/
So I’ve just been adding them gradually as i encounter blogs i care to read.
Pick a closed source/cloud-based RSS reader. They usually include a bunch of news/topic-based feeds built in. Not recommended for daily use, but it’s a good way to get started (make your picks then export everything into an app like Read You). From there your list can grow organically.
I use NetNewsWire on iOS
Well said, the emphasis here seems to be more about the content rather than the amount of upvotes you can get. But as this community grows so will exploiters as well. Time will tell I guess, but I really enjoy this platform more than any other.
bot users? yes!
human users? well, yes.
Assholes? Yes too
The large subreddits each have more users than all of Lemmy. So yes.
However, like others have said, who cares? Community and quality of discussion is more important than raw user count. Here, what you post is actually seen by people, even if the thread is days old.
You can see some stats here.
1337 you say
Haha. Obvs Lemmy is only for the leet.
Nice. How often is that updated?
Daily I think. It’s an automated thing.
Pretty interesting how the number of active users per month has been fluctuating up/down but the number of comments and posts per month has been steadily going up
yes but I would also argue that it’s a nice benefit as of right now. it gives a more of a community feeling and less of a World Wide Web feeling
Yeah but don’t worry; Reddit will do something stupid again soon so more users will leave for places like Lemmy until that place is pure AI hell
Not even comparable. /r has more users and bots.
