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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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[–] Xathonn@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

I really like Kbin's microblog feature. Basically able to "tweet" in a community without making a whole post

[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 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@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year 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".

[–] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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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[–] AccountForStuff@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is this why I'm currently unable to access kbin from within Jerboa (Lemmy android client if you weren't aware) aside from meta@kbin.social? or would that not work anyway?

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[–] lel@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

honestly federation is one of the major things that confuses people about fediverse stuff, so that's probably helping them.

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