I’m a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?

I know the difference is partly because Lemmy was a larger platform, and is better known but the growth of Kbin seems suprisingly flat while the community seems to be getting more and more active?

      • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
        6·
        2 年前

        And that’s surprising, given it’s s newer, less-established platform. But it’s not like Lemmy was a household name before this.

        • MxM111@kbin.social
          41·
          2 年前

          I can give only my impression why I have chosen kbin. Better looking, more clear interface.

          • dandb@kbin.social
            12·
            2 年前

            Yeah there’s something about the way kbin works that just resonates with me more than Lemmy.

            • mihnt@kbin.social
              6·
              2 年前

              Kbin is better on PC, Lemmy is better on mobile. At least for me. Only downside I’ve found is I can’t upvote comments on Lemmy while on mobile.

              • MxM111@kbin.social
                1·
                2 年前

                Even on mobile I like the look of kbin more, but functionality is better for lemmy. I think it will change in future, kbin is just too young. In any case for mobile I have to see an app in a long term.

          • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
            4·
            2 年前

            Those are actually really valid reasons and presumably why I’m liking kbin as well. Design and feel are really big factors for user adaption, thanks for sharing your experience.

        • Kichae@kbin.social
          4·
          2 年前

          It’s also surprising because there are just fewer prominent kbin-based websites. Lemmy has lemmy.ml, lemmy.one, lemmy.world, and sh.itjust.works. And Beehaw, I guess, but they specifically throttle their growth.

          kbin has kbin.social, and then a bunch of instances that are just way, way lower profile.

          I mean, it’s so surprising that we should probably question it a little bit.

          • Awwab@kbin.social
            6·
            2 年前

            Kbins documentation for hosting is a bit of a mess and leaves a lot to be desired where Lemmy is much more turnkey for someone looking to setup an instance.

          • kestrel7@kbin.social
            4·
            2 年前

            Anecdotally, from looking at Mastodon, it seems like people there are hyping kbin (and fedia.io) more than lemmy… that could just be the people I happen to be following, though.

            • toxic@kbin.social
              5·
              2 年前

              Well, you can use Mastadon with a kbin username so there’s that. I don’t think you can with Lemmy.

              • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
                1·
                2 年前

                You cannot use mastodon from kbin or lemmy. I think you might be referencing the fact that from kbin you can create Note posts, which appear on mastodon, pleroma, calckey, etc as a normal (tweet-like) post.

                That’s not why mastodon users are hyping kbin over lemmy. There are rumors going around that the lemmy developers are bad people and a lot of mastodon users now consider lemmy blacklisted because of that

      • toxic@kbin.social
        34·
        2 年前

        Honestly, looking at active users over the last 24 hours I’d say kbin is growing faster than lemmy.

        • BirdLawyerPerson@kbin.social
          9·
          2 年前

          Even setting aside user stats, kbin.social threads still manage to rise pretty high when sorted by Active/Hot from lemmy instances viewing all threads/channels/magazines. I created accounts on several instances, and we’ll see which one wins out on how I actually want to use these sites/services, but for the most part there’s a ton of overlap between what regular users are seeing from each service.