But you don't have to broadcast anything if you don't want to — maybe with the exception of things like "racism, sexism, queerphobia, transphobia, and bigotry are not welcome", to make sure people who need that kind of safety can see that they can at least expect some basic moderation. 😉
How do you build a community that’s explicitly not tankie without being just as insufferable?
By being aware that there will be things you might not want to tolerate in your community and reacting to them when they show up. Communities differ. Their values differ. And that's okay.
I linked the "tankie baggage" phrase to a post about it now. Check it out.
KBin is dealing with the onslaught of new users, and as it is a newer project, it's not handling it as well as Lemmy.
Also, you are looking at user accounts, I was talking about monthly active users.
Also also, biggest instance of KBin is currently out of federation (so does not show up in these stats), but it is still growing and is pretty damn huge now: https://kbin.social/stats
We shall see what happens when kbin.social re-joins federation. But also: this is not a competition. What matters is that there are independent software projects in this space.
I do not believe there is a migration tool for Lemmy-KBin migrations.
I wish I came up wit it myself! Sadly no, noticed it in a few threads over the last few days.
Humans are amazing.
Same! I use a Lemmy instance myself. I'm just happy to see there is diversity in terms of software projects in the Threadiverse.
I do indeed use a Lemmy instance that is not aligned with tankie politics. That being said, I am also acutely aware that technology is political and developers of a given piece of software make decisions based on their personal politics, sometimes even without knowing it. So it is important, I feel, to be aware of that.
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.
competition can be a good thing in this space.
Absolutely, that's why I am celebrating Kbin existing and being used.
Works AOK here in NL