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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 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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[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 7 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like KBin has an edge over Lemmy now in terms of monthly active users.

I just followed the links in the post:

KBin 2,753 users Lemmy 112,013 users

I watched all the charts and every KPI have the same ratio of 1:40

Note that I am a today subscriber to Lemmy, and just took a look at KBin.

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[–] priapus@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely different codebase, written in PHP instead of Rust.

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[–] bubu@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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 loae all my comments etc.)? Or would it be possible to "migrate"?

[–] VioletteRei@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now, you would have to lost everything and create a new account. But maybe we'll see a solution for it coming

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Any ideas what are the pros and cons of each option?

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[–] Browning@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] OfficialThunderbolt@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here you go.

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[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yep, thread based communities are shared perfectly between Lemmy and kbin. Other than currently the largest kbin community is having federation issues due to the influx of users

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[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 8 points 1 year ago (10 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?

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year 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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[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (6 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.

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[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k

[–] AfroThundr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple times a day when I go to kbin they Cloudflare me...kinda irritating. beehaw or Squabbles are down with a VPN dropping by, apparently. Or whatever's at work here.

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[–] HawkMan@beehaw.org 6 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?

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