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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 [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] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 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

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 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".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It was just too much greatness all at once. Like a fire hose of greatness when you just wanted a small sip

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[–] [email protected] 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

kbin.social is overloaded. Check out alternative instances, like fedia.io

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

And the nice thing, It doesn't hurt the users of one or the other, all content on both platforms are accessible on both platforms! the more the merrier

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[–] [email protected] 3 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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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