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
kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k
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".
It was just too much greatness all at once. Like a fire hose of greatness when you just wanted a small sip
Yeah it's only temporary, they are on the process of moving to a bigger server
Federation isn't disabled directly. The admin put the instance behind a cloudflare proxy, which breaks the ActivityPub federation without further tweaking to open up the relevant ports. He's working on loosening up that restriction to get federation working properly again.
Edit: Also kbin.social currently sits at ~126k users.
is this why I'm currently unable to access kbin from within Jerboa (Lemmy android client if you weren't aware) aside from meta@kbin.social? or would that not work anyway?
Yeh. That and some instances are just slow right now.
honestly federation is one of the major things that confuses people about fediverse stuff, so that's probably helping them.