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According to threadcount

222,397 Lemmy/kbin accounts
+23,441 in the last hour
71,331 monthly active users

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[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think we've seen any evidence of this yet but I think we should be skeptical of sudden spikes. Could be bots.

[–] atomKbin@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention a couple hours ago someone publicly disclosed a bug that could create thousands of new accounts quickly.

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[–] Badabinski@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's incredibly impressive! I haven't noticed a single hitch and I've been browsing nonstop for the past hour or so.

[–] krevassi@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Odd 503 error here and there due to cloudflare, otherwise smooth like butter!

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Yesterday I was receiving a 503 error a few times. I've run into it once today when trying to upvote a post. At the very least kbin seems to be handling traffic pretty well.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is gone now, the 503 errors are caused by things being worked on!

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[–] Deliverator@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The live page psuedo app is working well for me on grapheneOS with the vanadium browser, I do also get a random 503 error but it's already so much better than a couple days ago

[–] Onii-Chan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always good to see another grapheneOS user in the wild.

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[–] callyral@readit.buzz 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nice to be part of this, the fediverse is awesome. i joined kbin (readit.buzz) yesterday

off-topic but OP is your username related to The Good Place?

[–] retiolus@lemmy.cat 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Looks like this comes from https://www.hexbear.net/, as I understand they started federating today (https://www.hexbear.net/post/273380) with 23K users and 271K posts.

This would explain the spike in the number of users and the number of publications. So no, they're not bots

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[–] Odo@startrek.website 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hexbear migrated to upstream Lemmy yesterday (they were running a home developed fork from an earlier version of Lemmy). I submitted the instance to fedidb earlier today (after a bunch of failed attempts because fedidb kept erroring out/timing out for some reason). Afaik, federation is not active (yet) on their instance.

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[–] lixus98@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Totally expected since that post from r/ModCoord mentioned kbin and lemmy

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[–] ShellSurf@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exciting. I don't need millions of people, just enough to not be a ghost town.

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[–] BasedDebianUsr@monero.town 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, finally people are flooding in, just hope these instances can handle it. Did some youtuber mention us or something?

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the post I linked to, in the comments someone mentions that Lemmy and Kbin were mentioned on a Reddit post. ETA: I recommend rfollowing that account.

[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a bit skeptical of 23k real new accounts in the last hour. If true, it's quite something. But, it could be bots, it could be some bug inflating the numbers, it could be somebody taking advantage of the account creation bug someone mentioned earlier.

We'll see.

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[–] atomKbin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As awesome as this is, I hope it is not because of a bug someone posted about a few hours ago being able to create accounts in mass.Some people need to learn about responsible disclosure.
If legit then this is fantastic!

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ooh exciting stuff, I wonder if there is another wave with the appocalypse on the 30th.

[–] Pilirin@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

the r/modcoord people finally admitted that there's no use sticking around and have finally started saying to leave reddit

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[–] abraxas86@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Oh hey, I'm a statistic 😂

[–] dreamfall@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know it's early...but this seems a better start than Mastodon! Hope it sticks! Even if we get a fourth of reddit's numbers I think we can have a great community!

[–] Dav@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Over 55 million active daily users on Reddit, a fourth would be cool but I’d be happy with a fifty-fifth too.

[–] explodingkitchen@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

This is nothing. July's going to be insane.

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

I saw someone mentioned earlier today that there was norhing stopping automated account creation or something (I'm not tech savvy enough to knoww exact6what he meant) aand as a proof of concept, they created like 20,000 accounts or something on sh.it.just.works. So I'm hoping this isn't just a flood of bots.

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[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

P.S. This is another tracking account, this time for Mastodon accounts:

@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social

These are Mastodon's latest stats:

12,632,888 accounts
+2,654 in the last hour
+60,821 in the last day
+372,962 in the last week

They also are having a lot of recent growth.

[–] millions@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Who let the bots in

[–] MoxFcCloud@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait did I miss something? Why the sudden influx?

[–] can@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

/r/ModCoord is officially recommending recreating communities elsewhere now. Likely related. Though others have said it's just delayed reporting. Maybe a bit of both.

[–] Pilirin@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

the r/modcoord subreddit finally admitted that there's no use trying to stay on reddit and are now recommending people migrate, and this was the top place on the list

[–] brownbreadboy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm trying to figure out as well. Its been so vague because reddit keeps surpressing information that gets shut down by reddit itself.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The moderators organizing the protest had been trying to organize their own thing for a while to port their communities over.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that the "own thing" was untenable; too many differences to reconcile. Different mod teams had given up on the process and have already started to make places on Lemmy/Kbin.

Remaining closed is seemingly impossible; if you remain closed, Reddit will replace you within 24 hours). That's not a bluff; Reddit has done it (and is creating more and more powermods in the process as these big subreddits get centralized into the hands of giant powermods that cooperate with the admins).

With that in mind, they've decided the best way to damage Reddit is from within Reddit itself. Over the last couple days they've been putting together guidance on how to stay within the letter of Reddit's rules while maintaining the protest. Among that guidance is tips to make Reddit as miserable as possible while heavily promoting alternative communities. Everything is officially following Reddit's rules to the letter, so if the admins punish these communities they're proving those rules to be a farce.

A lot of places are now making the jump to alternate communities. Some are on the fediverse (here's a list), some aren't. But now it's "official" guidance from the protest leaders, so expect to see a lot more advertising for Lemmy/Kbin from subreddits that participated in the protest.

[–] ViridianNott@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

"delayed reporting"

growth is still great though, proud of this community

[–] thanksbrother@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago
[–] SoNick@readit.buzz 6 points 1 year ago

Neat! I'm happy to see Kbin grow

[–] JerkedCake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm new to this what's the difference between kbin/Lemmy/mastadon

[–] IntlLawGnome@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is primarily a microblogging social media platform akin to Twitter. The other two are primarily multi-forum board akin to Reddit.

All three rely on the ActivityPub protocol, so there is some intercommunication between them (esp. between Lemmy and Kbin). That's why they're often referenced in the same breath. That, and most websites operating under these standards are not run for commercial profit.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is like Twitter, Lemmy is similar to reddit, and Kbin combines both functionalities with different terminology. I'm sure someone more knowledgeable will chime in !

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Mastodon: Like Twitter. You can follow people, or #hashtags.

  • Lemmy: Like Reddit. Subreddits on Lemmy are "communities". Different instances have different communities.

  • Kbin: Both Lemmy and Mastodon combined. Subreddits on Kbin are called "magazines". Posts can be made to magazines directly, plus Mastodon posts with #hashtags will be automatically cross-posted to the appropriate community.

All of them are part of the "fediverse". Because of this, they can all talk to each other. You can follow Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines from Mastodon. Kbin allows you to follow Mastodon users from Kbin.

All that changes is how the content is displayed. Lemmy displays it like Reddit. Mastodon displays it like Twitter. Kbin has different tabs that let you switch between both.

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[–] Opfes@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

So exciting! I’m planning on starting up my own instance for my family to use, so that way other people who don’t have the overhead or knowledge to self host can have my bandwidth 😁

[–] veldais@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Oh heck yea my dudes

[–] minnieo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Way too sudden. Someone just either made a bunch of fake accounts or that graph found a big instance it wasn't counting before - hexbear possibly?

Organic growth would not be so sharp, you'd expect to see it continue for more than an hour and slowly taper down

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