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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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[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail

Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.

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[–] Xathonn@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 2 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

[–] AccountForStuff@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years 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?

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Yeh. That and some instances are just slow right now.

[–] lel@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years 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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"Tankie baggage?"

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 2 points 2 years 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.

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