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My understanding is that because of the way the various aggregators work is basically impossible to quantify the audience of RSS feeds, and that’s a good thing.
by manuelmoreale 3y ago
My understanding is that because of the way the various aggregators work is basically impossible to quantify the audience of RSS feeds, and that’s a good thing.
- darekkay 3y agoGetting an exact number is impossible, that's what I wrote in the linked blog post as well. But every RSS reader that requires user accounts knows the exact numbers, and 4 of the main readers expose those numbers via HTTP requests.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoFrom my personal digging [0] RSS is way too noisy. Just a wild guess but the 4 main readers are not where the majority of the RSS users are. [0] https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs https://manuelmoreale.com/poking-around-my-server-logs