rysiek

Yeah, the main instance, kbin.social, is struggling under load right now. There are other instances though, like https://fedia.io/

https://kbin.pub/en

A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.

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.

I find it very active, once you follow a few active accounts. People boost interesting stuff into your timeline, you can follow hashtags directly, and on smaller thematic instances the local timeline is a great place too, so there is plenty of ways to get a nice active feed.

lemmy might be counting people who have posted this month and kbin might be counting anyone who has cisited the site.

The data is from The-Federation.info, and the idea is that the metric is about users whose accounts were active over the last month. I think "active" in both cases means "has logged in recently".

Big respect to all the devs for handling this growth so well.

Absolutely. Sending all the hugs and good vibes, the Big Wave has not even started yet, I think.

Might just be a case of a relatively new project still figuring stuff out.

Sounds about right. And there is always a possibility of someone creating a migration tool.

Lemmy is written in Rust, has been around for a while, and there are a bunch of established communities on established Lemmy instances already.

KBin is sadly PHP, relative newcomer, arguably better interface, and no baggage.

That's all I got myself. Hope others will chip in.

I don't think you need to worry about it. It's up to a given community whether or not that baggage affects it or not, I think. Building communities that are very explicitly not tankie is a great way of helping overcome that baggage for the whole project.

Yeah. Another thing that can't really happen on fedi: nymwars.

Obviously there are also threats, but they are different threats than those that apply to centralized platforms. One of the threats, in fact, is centralization itself — if people flock to a few gigantic instances, that creates a central point of failure, potentially.

But there are currently ~20k independently run fedi instances. Some had been running for a decade or longer.

As I said, we're here for the long run.

If the Fediverse just wants to exist stabely, even be mentionable in size, it is not. But to take over from the Big Tech SNSs, it is. People are where other people are. And that’s what the topic was about, replacing Big Tech SNSs.

Fediverse existed before Google+, then came Google+, then Google pushed it hard (including forcing YouTube users to have Google+ accounts), then Google killed Google+.

Fediverse is still here.

So while yes, it would be nice to have more people out of walled gardens, let's keep stuff in perspective.