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
Can someone explain the "tankie" baggage? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit but no one seems to explain it in detail.
(Some) Lemmy devs seem to have political ideologies that are within the "tankie" settings. That's mostly it. Some people express they feel uncomfortable about it. Such devs hold an instance separate from the flagship instance (lemmygrad.ml), which in my opinion is not bad at all, I think it's better they keep them to themselves giving an option to other instances to block it. They're not trying to shove tankies ideas down anyones throats through the softwate or anything. Though this has leaked to the flagship instance sometimes as shown by this post
While true, there's still some pretty questionable/pro-CCP moderation on lemmy.ml.
That's true and I added it later by an edit in my original post which appears not to have synchronized to Beehaw yet. I wholeheartedly agree with the final paragraph of that post.
Glad they can't take over the whole Fediverse. I mean Reddit admins were okay with jailbait and a lot of other disgusting stuff, and they actually make decisions for the whole site. The Fediverse is immune to that, the lead dev could literally be a CCP agent and other instances would still be trustworthy as long as the software is open source.
Well, TIL a new word: tankie.
Purge it from your mind before you fall down a rabbithole of some of the most brain-broken people on the internet.
I linked the "tankie baggage" phrase to a post about it now. Check it out.