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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] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agreed Lemmy is a lot cleaner IMO. I'd be all-in if it weren't for the political baggage, even with federation we're empowering these guys and giving them a bigger platform. l'm still uneasy about that.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m pretty uneasy about the association, but the attitude of Beehaw is the antithesis of it so I guess it balances out..?

I did play with Kbin first but the interface felt kinda broken to me, buttons not reacting and the like..

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

Tbh, it's floss so I don't care who's working on it. I just don't really get kbin ui myself, lemmy is far closer to reddit for me. If I wanted the microblogging I already have Mastodon so I don't see why it's trying to do both. I prefer the old unix philosophy myself.

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

Kbin just feels like a home project to my eyes. Hope it goes well and the federation will be absolutely amazing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You can just block a community or user and you won't see it. Main thing is that its not corporate owned

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Federation also works between kbin and Lemmy so if you're worried about that, the only solution is defederation from them.