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KBin has taken over Lemmy in monthly active users count (szmer.info)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nice to see the fediverse growing no matter where it is. As long as we can all communicate it doesn't matter what instance or software we're on.

Sidenote: is kbin a fork of lemmy? Or a different codebase entirely?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Completely different codebase, written in PHP instead of Rust.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I want to like kbin, but I understand beehaw and Lemmy instances better. For the life of me, I cannot figure out the syntax to find communities/instances that are not local to kbin. They have some great "magazines", but I've already started following some communities on other Lemmy instances, so if I opt to use the kbin server and their UI, I need to be able to figure out how to find the communities I'm already participating in.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Can someone please explain the "tankie baggage"?
I understand the words, but not the history.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Can someone explain the "tankie" baggage? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit but no one seems to explain it in detail.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Hmm, interesting. I just spent some time getting a Lemmy instance set up -- maybe I should've gone for kbin instead?

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

i think you can engage and interact across both so it may not matter as much.

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[–] jason 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Despite the tankie stuff I prefer the interface of Lemmy, though I have accounts on both. Love that they federate. Things are happening.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In what sense? Kbin is struggling with the wave of new subscriptions just as Lemmy is, and since it's a smaller project with fewer resources, it's having a harder time doing so.

That does not make the fact that at some point Kbin was ahead of Lemmy in terms of active accounts any less notable. I would even argue it makes it more notable.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

just looked for the first time, I really do prefer kbin's UI to Lemmy's right now at least the default web client. Is there value in running both or just one?

I notice I can see mastadon posts on lemmy as well but how do I find stuff on Kbin or Mastadon from lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I think most of us newcomers are struggling to figure out right now. Do I need a Mastadon account and a Lemmy account, or can I just use one to see the rest? Is there a better Android app or other website to integrate it all? Is matrix.org a part of all of this fediverse stuff?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

what you need is what you want, personally im working my way around, I also notice that while fediverse content is technically connected, im not seeing a clean way to fully intereact with or browse mastadon or kbin content like i can lemmy content. It seems you still need to be ON these various apps if you want discoverability to be fully functional.

something i would expect will be fixed in the future.

personally ill be running instances of a number of fediverse apps and then keeping the apps i like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're on desktop, I made a style that uses the Stylus add on to not look like shit

https://userstyles.world/style/10309/densify-for-lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail

Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.

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

I really like Kbin's microblog feature. Basically able to "tweet" in a community without making a whole post

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

What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?

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

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

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

I find kbin’s interface to be a bit cluttered. But I really like the ease of following microblog accounts. If I could just have a “microblog only” feed in kbin I think it would make me switch my dartboard.social domain from Akkoma to kbin.

We will see how it shakes out after a few updates.

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

I signed up for KBin but can't log in. I've seen similar complaints from others. I'm assuming they're either seriously overloaded or something has gone wrong on their end.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a bit funny to be like "federation is what will make this great" and then "federation blows us up, so we're turning it off".

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