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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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[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail

Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.

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[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Can someone explain the "tankie" baggage? I've seen it thrown around quite a bit but no one seems to explain it in detail.

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[–] Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yep, thread based communities are shared perfectly between Lemmy and kbin. Other than currently the largest kbin community is having federation issues due to the influx of users

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[–] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 16 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Hmm, interesting. I just spent some time getting a Lemmy instance set up -- maybe I should've gone for kbin instead?

[–] lunarshot 15 points 2 years ago

i think you can engage and interact across both so it may not matter as much.

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[–] lixus98 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

kbin.social currently has 20k + users. However it currently has federation disabled due to the traffic is receiving. Edit: It isn't 100k

[–] Matir@infosec.pub 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's a bit funny to be like "federation is what will make this great" and then "federation blows us up, so we're turning it off".

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[–] Browning@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Can someone please explain the "tankie baggage"?
I understand the words, but not the history.

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[–] biscuitsofdoom 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)
[–] rysiek@szmer.info 14 points 2 years ago (10 children)

https://kbin.pub/en

A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.

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[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Any ideas what are the pros and cons of each option?

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[–] knova@links.dartboard.social 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] ratz30 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I signed up for KBin but can't log in. I've seen similar complaints from others. I'm assuming they're either seriously overloaded or something has gone wrong on their end.

[–] pivotraze@fedia.io 10 points 2 years ago

kbin.social is overloaded. Check out alternative instances, like fedia.io

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