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Is the number of users in all of Lemmy tiny compared to the number of users in Reddit?

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  • chaoscruiser@futurology.todayC [email protected]

    yes

    Reddit seems to be about 1000x bigger.

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    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 and more active users, as more users require more moderation resources and time.

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      Yes. Go up to someone on the street and ask what Lemmy is.

      That's fine, though, we're not going anywhere, and we can only grow.

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        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

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        rss feeds

        Can u elaborate how you are using it

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          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

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          I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits

          are you using an app to do this?

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            I’ve switched to RSS feeds for my consumption habbits

            are you using an app to do this?

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            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.

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            • dessalines@lemmy.mlD [email protected]

              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 and more active users, as more users require more moderation resources and time.

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              That is a valid point. If we take those numbers with a hefty heap of salt, Reddit would still be 10x or 100x bigger than Lemmy.

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                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

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                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.

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                  A particle on an object.

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                    Yes. Go up to someone on the street and ask what Lemmy is.

                    That's fine, though, we're not going anywhere, and we can only grow.

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                    it can easily shrink

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                      Not even comparable. /r has more users and bots.

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                        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.

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                        Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?

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                          it can easily shrink

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                          That hasn't been the trend though.

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                            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.

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                              Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?

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                              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.

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                                it can easily shrink

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                                How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don't know what that would be right now.

                                Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, or even straight-up be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything,.

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                                  Where does one find RSS feeds to subscribe to?

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                                  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.

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                                    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.

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

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                                      How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don't know what that would be right now.

                                      Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, or even straight-up be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything,.

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                                      How?

                                      The number of people who use it decreases

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                                        How?

                                        The number of people who use it decreases

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                                        Yeah, but like, I gave some actual reasons that probably won't happen.

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                                          How? Something else would have to pull community members away from the fediverse. I don't know what that would be right now.

                                          Meanwhile, non-federated platforms will enshittify, or even straight-up be bought out by a crazy billionare who wants to ruin everything,.

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                                          How?

                                          It is difficult to find conversations on the Fediverse that don't boil down to "America bad" "Linux good" "is the Fediverse growing?" and if that trend keeps up for terribly much longer people will stop logging in because they've experienced all the platform has to offer. Even people who hate America and love Linux are going to wander off if you don't show them enough cat pictures.

                                          Threads like "ask a question and my guinea pig will type the answer" are way too rare here.

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