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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

instances of both federate with one another

At least for me, I cannot access most kbin magazines from Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not able to join magazines on fedia.io either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh. That's surprising. I just joined https://fedia.io/m/cybersecurity from my Lemmy account on szmer.info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Did you find it by searching for [email protected] on your instance?

Edit: Interestingly, I was eventually able to join Kbit magazines by pasting the full URL into the search - it seems like this works but using the ! format doesn't, at least on my server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's going to be a glorious moment when lemmy and kbin can fully see each other's posts!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well, you mean when kbin.social re-joins federation. There are always going to be some Lemmy instances and some Kbin instances that do not federate with one another, and that's fine.