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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] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

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[–] [email protected] 3 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] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 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] 3 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

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

I've been having a blast on Lemmy so far. Just had to unsub from the Brazil community because Brazil has a lot of tankies for some fucking reason.

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

I choose to believe Brazilians have dealt with fascists in their government for so long it's all they want now.

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

is this why I'm currently unable to access kbin from within Jerboa (Lemmy android client if you weren't aware) aside from [email protected]? or would that not work anyway?

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

honestly federation is one of the major things that confuses people about fediverse stuff, so that's probably helping them.

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

The cloudflare protection of their main instance is breaking federation right now, which is a bit annoying. I hope this will be resolved soon.

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

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] 2 points 1 year ago

Are you comparing kbin to all of the lemmy fediverse?

Because kbin is part of the fediverse and has as far as I understand been bigger then the biggest lemmy instances for a while by a good margin?

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

instances of both federate with one another

At least for me, I cannot access most kbin magazines from Lemmy

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

Try magazines from https://fedia.io, which is also a Kbin instance. The "main" Kbin instance, kbin.social, currently does not federate due to the load.

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