We all know that lemmy.world is the most popular instance, but how does it compare to kbin.social? Which do you think will be more popular in the long run?

  • kfoo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Average Lemmy user and Kbin user counts as a whole across all instances are about even, but the cool thing about it is that it doesn’t matter. Any user on any lemmy OR Kbin instance can access content on any other instance, barring any “defederation” activities by the instance owners.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve searched for Lemmy world communities on kbin and came up dry. There’s a problem of communication between the sites.

      • I’m on Kbin and “All” seems almost entirely to be lemmy magazines. I’ve had to go out of my way to find and subscribe to the Kbin equivalents in some cases.

        (My reasoning is primarily that if there is an active community on Kbin, may as well establish there to cut down on potential defederation shenanigans should any occur in the future.)

      • Kaldo@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Uhm, hi? 😁

        There are occasional issues depending on traffic but in my experience it generally works pretty well. Keep in mind that kbin has a slightly different syntax for adding completely new communities that nobody has subscribed to yet, it’s not !x@y but rather @x@y and it only works in search, not all communities, tab.

  • jennwiththesea@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hope they continue to serve their users and federate together, along with other large instances. The more the better! We need stability and options. (I’m saying this as a .world user, who is very happy here. Ruud seems to know what he’s doing.)

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Holy shit, you just made me realize that third party platforms don’t seem to be tracking the active users on Lemmy accurately. Either that or kbin is defining an active user very generously and Lemmy is being more strict.

    https://the-federation.info/node/details/48862 https://the-federation.info/node/details/49984

    See how kbin.social and lemmy.world have nearly identical trajectories? Lemmy.world actually has significantly more posts and comments. However, lemmy.world only shows like 12k active users and kbin shows all 42k of it’s users as active.

    Incidentally, the answer to OP is that lemmy.world is slightly more popular now, but kbin.social is looking like they will overtake eventually.

    This is a vital issue to get to the bottom of, because the narrative from reddit is going to be that Lemmy’s userbase is all bots. And then you go to a page like this and it does look pretty bad.

    https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

    If kbin is overcounting active users, we can leave that for later 😅. But if Lemmy is undercounting, we need to fix that ASAP.

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        1 year ago

        Thankfully, fixing Lemmy’s UI on desktop is as simple as installing a CSS browser plugin and copy/pasting in one of the many custom themes that are already available.

  • Lantech@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As others have said, does it matter? It’s like asking how many astraweb users there are vs giganews.

    The wheel of time turns and ages come and pass. There are neither endings nor beginnings.