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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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[–] Sleeping@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Just took a look at the stats on The-Federation.info and looks like Lemmy is doing just fine.

Lemmy Stats: 162 Nodes 90,053 Users 277,427 Posts 610,007 Comments

Kbin Stats: 7 Nodes 5,960 Users 3,992 Posts 4,844 Comments

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Oh I am not saying it is not doing fine. I just found it super-interesting that a much younger project got ahead, even if perhaps only temporarily, as far as active users are concerned.

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[–] andrycake@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

instances of both federate with one another

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

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago (5 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.

[–] andrycake@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Good to know, thanks!

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[–] priapus@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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?

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago

Completely different codebase, written in PHP instead of Rust.

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[–] pinkpatrol@anarch.is 2 points 2 years ago

I think it mainly comes down to the project landing page being more friendly and the UI being more polished.

The landing page of join-lemmy.org doesn't show what the website looks like. The only screenshots are of code and github. That section is geared towards potential instance administrators, not potential users.

[–] ratz30@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years 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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