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

  • joneskind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • rysiek@szmer.infoOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      KBin is dealing with the onslaught of new users, and as it is a newer project, it’s not handling it as well as Lemmy.

      Also, you are looking at user accounts, I was talking about monthly active users.
      Also also, biggest instance of KBin is currently out of federation (so does not show up in these stats), but it is still growing and is pretty damn huge now: https://kbin.social/stats

      We shall see what happens when kbin.social re-joins federation. But also: this is not a competition. What matters is that there are independent software projects in this space.