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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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty uneasy about the association, but the attitude of Beehaw is the antithesis of it so I guess it balances out…?

    I did play with Kbin first but the interface felt kinda broken to me, buttons not reacting and the like…

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      1 year ago

      Tbh, it’s floss so I don’t care who’s working on it. I just don’t really get kbin ui myself, lemmy is far closer to reddit for me. If I wanted the microblogging I already have Mastodon so I don’t see why it’s trying to do both. I prefer the old unix philosophy myself.

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        1 year ago

        Kbin just feels like a home project to my eyes. Hope it goes well and the federation will be absolutely amazing.

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        1 year ago

        I want I like Kbin, and in time I think I will, but the UX is a little too unfinished right now. I’ll keep checking in on it and I’m excited to see two things that conceivably offer a similar experience to Reddit gaining traction. Big-up the fediverse!