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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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

God, what I would give for Apollo to rip the Reddit API guts out and refit with Lemmy’s. He open sourced it so I’m sure someone will.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Didn't he open source the server backend? Not the app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Server backend stuff was to contradict the Reddit CEOs claims about Apollo being inefficient on the API.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure honestly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Would be hilarious if all the third party reddit clients updated at the same time to connect to a completely new board.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You can do the whole ‘add to home screen’ and it sort of functions like an app in iOS.

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

But kbin looks fine in browser on iOS? Actually, I'm really happy I don't have to download another app to use it.