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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by rysiek@szmer.info to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] biscuitsofdoom@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What's kbin?

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

https://kbin.pub/en

A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.

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[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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[–] Browning@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

[–] OfficialThunderbolt@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here you go.

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[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 2 years 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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[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[–] Matir 8 points 2 years 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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[–] AfroThundr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 8 points 2 years ago (8 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?

[–] mustyOrange@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

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

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[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years 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?

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 9 points 2 years 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.

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[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 7 points 2 years 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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[–] bubu@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

If I were to switch from Lemmy to KBin (or vice versa), would I have to start over (e.g. create a new account there and lose all my comments etc.)? Or would it be possible to “migrate”?

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 6 points 2 years ago (18 children)

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

[–] lunarshot@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

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

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