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In what sense? Kbin is struggling with the wave of new subscriptions just as Lemmy is, and since it's a smaller project with fewer resources, it's having a harder time doing so.
That does not make the fact that at some point Kbin was ahead of Lemmy in terms of active accounts any less notable. I would even argue it makes it more notable.
Looks like KBin has an edge over Lemmy now in terms of monthly active users.
I just followed the links in the post:
KBin 2,753 users Lemmy 112,013 users
I watched all the charts and every KPI have the same ratio of 1:40
Note that I am a today subscriber to Lemmy, and just took a look at KBin.
Nice to see the fediverse growing no matter where it is. As long as we can all communicate it doesn't matter what instance or software we're on.
Sidenote: is kbin a fork of lemmy? Or a different codebase entirely?
Hmm, interesting. I just spent some time getting a Lemmy instance set up -- maybe I should've gone for kbin instead?
i think you can engage and interact across both so it may not matter as much.
just looked for the first time, I really do prefer kbin's UI to Lemmy's right now at least the default web client. Is there value in running both or just one?
I notice I can see mastadon posts on lemmy as well but how do I find stuff on Kbin or Mastadon from lemmy?
Can someone explain the "tankie" baggage? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit but no one seems to explain it in detail.
What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?
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.
Are you comparing kbin to all of the lemmy fediverse?
Because kbin is part of the fediverse and has as far as I understand been bigger then the biggest lemmy instances for a while by a good margin?
Is I were to switch from Lemmy to KBin (or vice versa), would I have to start over (e.g. create a new account there and loae all my comments etc.)? Or would it be possible to "migrate"?