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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 (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

(Some) Lemmy devs seem to have political ideologies that are within the "tankie" settings. That's mostly it. Some people express they feel uncomfortable about it. Such devs hold an instance separate from the flagship instance (lemmygrad.ml), which in my opinion is not bad at all, I think it's better they keep them to themselves giving an option to other instances to block it. They're not trying to shove tankies ideas down anyones throats or anything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's true and I added it later by an edit in my original post which appears not to have synchronized to Beehaw yet. I wholeheartedly agree with the final paragraph of that post.

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

Glad they can't take over the whole Fediverse. I mean Reddit admins were okay with jailbait and a lot of other disgusting stuff, and they actually make decisions for the whole site. The Fediverse is immune to that, the lead dev could literally be a CCP agent and other instances would still be trustworthy as long as the software is open source.

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

Well, TIL a new word: tankie.

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

Purge it from your mind before you fall down a rabbithole of some of the most brain-broken people on the internet.

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

I linked the "tankie baggage" phrase to a post about it now. Check it out.