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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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[–] ratz30@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I signed up for KBin but can't log in. I've seen similar complaints from others. I'm assuming they're either seriously overloaded or something has gone wrong on their end.

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[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k

[–] AfroThundr@lemmy.world 5 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.

Edit: Also kbin.social currently sits at ~126k users.

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 4 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.

[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the nice thing, It doesn't hurt the users of one or the other, all content on both platforms are accessible on both platforms! the more the merrier

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[–] Xathonn@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

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

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