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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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[–] jason@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Despite the tankie stuff I prefer the interface of Lemmy, though I have accounts on both. Love that they federate. Things are happening.

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[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

just looked for the first time, I really do prefer kbin's UI to Lemmy's right now at least the default web client. Is there value in running both or just one?

I notice I can see mastadon posts on lemmy as well but how do I find stuff on Kbin or Mastadon from lemmy?

[–] Kalkaline@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I think most of us newcomers are struggling to figure out right now. Do I need a Mastadon account and a Lemmy account, or can I just use one to see the rest? Is there a better Android app or other website to integrate it all? Is matrix.org a part of all of this fediverse stuff?

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[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?

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[–] HawkMan@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Are you comparing kbin to all of the lemmy fediverse?

Because kbin is part of the fediverse and has as far as I understand been bigger then the biggest lemmy instances for a while by a good margin?

[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 6 points 1 year ago

I find kbin’s interface to be a bit cluttered. But I really like the ease of following microblog accounts. If I could just have a “microblog only” feed in kbin I think it would make me switch my dartboard.social domain from Akkoma to kbin.

We will see how it shakes out after a few updates.

[–] bubu@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I were to switch from Lemmy to KBin (or vice versa), would I have to start over (e.g. create a new account there and lose all my comments etc.)? Or would it be possible to “migrate”?

[–] VioletteRei@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For now, you would have to lost everything and create a new account. But maybe we'll see a solution for it coming

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[–] priapus@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Nice to see the fediverse growing no matter where it is. As long as we can all communicate it doesn't matter what instance or software we're on.

Sidenote: is kbin a fork of lemmy? Or a different codebase entirely?

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Completely different codebase, written in PHP instead of Rust.

[–] priapus@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

That's good, I prefer that rather than development efforts being split between similar forks.

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