yup, but that honestly makes it feel cozier :3
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.
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
yup but its a good size from my experience when engaging with it overall. if we get larger we will definately need more niche things.
On paper, Lemmy does look like there’s a lot. In practice, there’s not really a lot that reflects the total number of registrations.
Reddit, even with its bots and whatever, still has a large amount of active users compared to Lemmy.
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 agree. Lemmy today feels like reddit 15 years ago.
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.
Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.
It should be noted that social media companies like reddit, facebook, twitter, etc all have major incentives to inflate their user counts (with bots, or counting inactive users). Those user counts are the product that they’re selling to advertisers to set up on their platform.
We don’t have that incentive, in fact its the opposite, we’d rather have less users that are more active, as more users require more moderation resources and time.
