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
    24·
    2 years 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

    • rysiekOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years 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
        6·
        2 years 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·
          2 years 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
            3·
            2 years ago

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

            • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              2 years 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?

              • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Yeah, there shouldn’t be posts/comments to the communities that block Lemmygrad and in those that can like lemmy.ml’s communities - I believe that you can’t see them.