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

  • lixus98@beehaw.org
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    kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn’t 100k

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      1 year ago

      is this why I’m currently unable to access kbin from within Jerboa (Lemmy android client if you weren’t aware) aside from meta@kbin.social? or would that not work anyway?

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      1 year ago

      It’s a bit funny to be like “federation is what will make this great” and then “federation blows us up, so we’re turning it off”.

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      Federation isn’t disabled directly. The admin put the instance behind a cloudflare proxy, which breaks the ActivityPub federation without further tweaking to open up the relevant ports. He’s working on loosening up that restriction to get federation working properly again.

      Edit: Also kbin.social currently sits at ~126k users.

    • lel@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

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