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.

    • Trafficone@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think the kbin numbers are deflated because >90% of kbin users are on kbin.social and they are having trouble federating. I think the numbers will bounce back once they resolve the issue.

      A lot of posts there are lamenting that Lemmy is harder to sign up for, so I think the influx of users comes from kbin.social’s ease of new user signups. Hopefully they can scale up and get back on the fediverse.