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Is the number of users in all of Lemmy tiny compared to the number of users in Reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I agree. Lemmy today feels like reddit 15 years ago.

[–] pi49mhsbh@feddit.rocks 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

rss feeds

Can u elaborate how you are using it

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I follow blogs, gaming news and various other websites via RSS, and check my RSS reader couple times a day for new articles. Whenever they publish a new article, reader fetches it and there’s always something to read

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits

are you using an app to do this?

[–] Tencho@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?

[–] Tencho@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are probably lists you can search online but I find that adding /feed or /rss to the URL of a page I want to see updates from does the trick. There is also at least one Firefox add-on that indicates if a page has an RSS feed.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Normally you can paste the blog url directly into the rss reader and it will find the feed automatically.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I use NetNewsWire on iOS

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 3 points 11 months ago

There are plenty of pointless posts and comments here daily, but let’s hope for a quality future

[–] malm@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

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.