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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.

[–] pivotraze@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

kbin.social is overloaded. Check out alternative instances, like fedia.io

[–] Browning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Can someone please explain the "tankie baggage"?
I understand the words, but not the history.

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[–] 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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[–] lixus98@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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

[–] lel@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

honestly federation is one of the major things that confuses people about fediverse stuff, so that's probably helping them.

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