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

  • Sleeping@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Just took a look at the stats on The-Federation.info and looks like Lemmy is doing just fine.

    Lemmy Stats: 162 Nodes 90,053 Users 277,427 Posts 610,007 Comments

    Kbin Stats: 7 Nodes 5,960 Users 3,992 Posts 4,844 Comments

    • rysiek@szmer.infoOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Oh I am not saying it is not doing fine. I just found it super-interesting that a much younger project got ahead, even if perhaps only temporarily, as far as active users are concerned.

      • spoonful@beehaw.orgEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, many people are turned off by Lemmy tankies. I myself though I’d never come back to Lemmy until I found beehaw.

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Honestly, many people are turned off by Lemmy tankies.

          I keep hearing people commenting about that, but so far I haven’t noticed any particular tankie-ish influence.

          Maybe I’m just not choosing the communities where they hang out?

          • Rhabuko@feddit.deEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            The problem is lemmy.ml From what I get, a lot of the old guard (before the Reddit exodus) are tankies. That includes the admins and mods. And Lemmy.ml was or still is the biggest instance because new people automatically choose the server of the Lemmy devs (Because many people don’t understand the concept of federation).

            • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              So for those of us that do t have any association or federation with the “tankie lemmy”, there shouldn’t be any taint, right?

      • Sleeping@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I believe there was a post by a Kbin hoster that they had to set up a specifc rule in Cloudflare to get around the issue. Although AFAIK I would assume that Cloudflare could definitely be causing some issues for some instances which may not be set up correctly to get around the issue, which in turn could lead to the issue your suggesting. But then again don’t quote me on any of this I’m not a dev for any of the projects, and I’m basing this on my own projects where getting around Cloudflare to scrap data is a complete pain and sometimes more work then it’s worth.