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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 [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] 5 points 1 year ago

I want to like kbin, but I understand beehaw and Lemmy instances better. For the life of me, I cannot figure out the syntax to find communities/instances that are not local to kbin. They have some great "magazines", but I've already started following some communities on other Lemmy instances, so if I opt to use the kbin server and their UI, I need to be able to figure out how to find the communities I'm already participating in.

[–] [email protected] 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 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] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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 [email protected]? or would that not work anyway?

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[–] [email protected] 4 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.