Looks like KBin has an edge over Lemmy now in terms of monthly active users.
It's obviously a pretty silly thing, and is not in any way indicative of which project is "better" or more "long-term viable" or anything — instances of both federate with one another, and with the rest of fedi, so it's all one happy family.
That said, it's notable. KBin is a relative newcomer to the "Reddit-like fedi instance" game, and also does not have the tankie baggage.
Anyway, the more, the merrier!
KBin: https://the-federation.info/platform/184
Lemmy: https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Discussion on fedi: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110527049024028986
What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?
Yep, thread based communities are shared perfectly between Lemmy and kbin. Other than currently the largest kbin community is having federation issues due to the influx of users
So does that mean that any thread in the fediverse can be shared together? Or is kbin another Lemmy instance? I thought we could only look at other Lemmy instances.
They both use a similar protocol to talk between servers, but they are different software.
So we can interact with any software in the fediverse?
@technology
Yes, I'm on a mastodon and can go on any lemmy thread and comment. There are some caveats but if it's in the fediverse it can interoperate.
@TheOneCurly I've been noticing massive #Kbin federation issues, even from the small instance that I'm on, kbin.projectsegfau.lt
Agreed, Fedia.io was mostly working this morning but at some point federation just stalled.
Same here, I was using Fedia but I've switched back to lemmy.world because I straight up couldn't subscribe to some communities. And then realised the homepage is bugged and sorting by new doesn't actually show you the newest posts. I'll try it again when it's less of a buggy mess.