Analytics and "Like" features are simple ways to measure feedback.

I'm subscribed to People and Blogs by email, I always enjoy it, but I must admit that I would be happy for the series to end. The author is right: "it’s important to remind people that good things can only exist if we all collectively make them happen". We'll see if he follows through.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard of this until now. Scrolling through the list of blogs, I also haven’t heard of many of them.

A lot of blogging is reputation and consistency. The other part is audience. It looks like he's been at this for 3 years. There might just not be an audience for it. If that's the case, and the hustle doesn't bring you inherent joy, it probably isn't worth doing.

Aside: I really miss the days of Google Reader before Google shut it down... I do occasionally look through reddit or medium, but not nearly as much as in the before times. Mostly if it doesn't show up on HN, I'm likely to miss it...

I'd probably add Lobste.rs to my rotation if I had an invite. But I'm not sure that I'll ever reach the regular blog follows that I used to have. I tried a few blog feed readers/aggregators following the death of Google Reader, but nothing really stuck. Not to mention the features that used to be in the browser being entirely gone at this point.