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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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[–] PeaPanties@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The lack of app for KBin kills it for me.

I have a account with KBin and I may use it as well if there's an app

[–] spamfajitas@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android, you can add it to your home screen and it functions kind of like an app... it could definitely benefit from a native app, though.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nobody is going to fly with mobile browser these days. It's App or die in this regard.

The biggest social media sites have apps. It's suicide. Heck, the reason these sites are having the mass infux is because Reddits app sucks. If it was amazing nobody would of really cared and the spez drama wouldn't have happened.

Just my 2c.

[–] ContentSpy@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah an official app would be great.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even a fork of Jerboa or something could be a start!

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Huh i thought jabora would be able to log into it

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God, what I would give for Apollo to rip the Reddit API guts out and refit with Lemmy’s. He open sourced it so I’m sure someone will.

[–] Dalinar@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't he open source the server backend? Not the app

[–] CoffeeBot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Server backend stuff was to contradict the Reddit CEOs claims about Apollo being inefficient on the API.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Would be hilarious if all the third party reddit clients updated at the same time to connect to a completely new board.

[–] ladodger34@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

You can do the whole ‘add to home screen’ and it sort of functions like an app in iOS.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

But kbin looks fine in browser on iOS? Actually, I'm really happy I don't have to download another app to use it.