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Why is Kbin seemingly growing considerably slower than Lemmy? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?

I know the difference is partly because Lemmy was a larger platform, and is better known but the growth of Kbin seems suprisingly flat while the community seems to be getting more and more active?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And that's surprising, given it's s newer, less-established platform. But it's not like Lemmy was a household name before this.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can give only my impression why I have chosen kbin. Better looking, more clear interface.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah there's something about the way kbin works that just resonates with me more than Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kbin is better on PC, Lemmy is better on mobile. At least for me. Only downside I've found is I can't upvote comments on Lemmy while on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even on mobile I like the look of kbin more, but functionality is better for lemmy. I think it will change in future, kbin is just too young. In any case for mobile I have to see an app in a long term.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What mobile app do you use for kbin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are none yet. I was talking about "this will change in the future" part.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Those are actually really valid reasons and presumably why I'm liking kbin as well. Design and feel are really big factors for user adaption, thanks for sharing your experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's also surprising because there are just fewer prominent kbin-based websites. Lemmy has lemmy.ml, lemmy.one, lemmy.world, and sh.itjust.works. And Beehaw, I guess, but they specifically throttle their growth.

kbin has kbin.social, and then a bunch of instances that are just way, way lower profile.

I mean, it's so surprising that we should probably question it a little bit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Kbins documentation for hosting is a bit of a mess and leaves a lot to be desired where Lemmy is much more turnkey for someone looking to setup an instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, from looking at Mastodon, it seems like people there are hyping kbin (and fedia.io) more than lemmy... that could just be the people I happen to be following, though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, you can use Mastadon with a kbin username so there’s that. I don’t think you can with Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You cannot use mastodon from kbin or lemmy. I think you might be referencing the fact that from kbin you can create Note posts, which appear on mastodon, pleroma, calckey, etc as a normal (tweet-like) post.

That's not why mastodon users are hyping kbin over lemmy. There are rumors going around that the lemmy developers are bad people and a lot of mastodon users now consider lemmy blacklisted because of that

[–] Seraph089 2 points 1 year ago

There seems to be a lot of pass-through and mutual membership, so it isn't really that surprising. People who didn't have experience in the Fediverse before Rexxit came to Lemmy because it's what everybody was talking about, then branched out from there to explore the options.