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Lemmy growth curve (self.general)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by phil299 to c/general
 

Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing

data here

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[–] danc4498 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] danc4498 13 points 1 year ago

IT'S A SPY! GET EM!!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think of it like email, where you can use GMail and I can use Hotmail, but we can talk to each other. I can see your post and respond from my kbin account (like this).

[–] potato_pizzareca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can I see posts from Kbin?

[–] certain_people 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just look at all posts, some will pop up

[–] potato_pizzareca 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The goal of Kbin is to communicate with many other ActivityPup services.

Lemmy: Link aggregator, social network, forum
Kbin: Link aggregator, social network, forum, microblogging
Mastodon: Microblogging

You can use Kbin to interact with Lemmy, Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, and others. That's why I switched today (and loving it, exploring everything right now).

I don't believe that there are multiple instances of Kbin right now. I only know of kbin.social (it is free and open source, though, so anyone can open another instance, I think). Edit: This was wrong. There are many instances. See the answer below.

[–] danc4498 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Switched to kbin? How is it's front page aggregation? Is it closer to reddit than Lemmy?

[–] ulu_mulu 13 points 1 year ago

Have a look, you don't need to register just to see how it is: https://kbin.social/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes it’s much better and sorting seems stable.

[–] danc4498 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just checked it out. It certainly feels now polished. Do you know what the dev community is like? Do they update and add features frequently?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a tight small shop from what I understand. Their github: https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin

Ernest, from what I've seen, has been very receptive and passionate about all the incoming users. They scaled their infrastructure quickly to meet demand and were interacting with users on kbin regarding features they would like to see. I have high hopes.

[–] danc4498 2 points 1 year ago

I'll check that out too... I like the comment UI better in Lemmy, but everything else seems better in Kbin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AFAIK kbin is way early in development and got slammed by a wave of new users after Rexxit happened.

So the dev’s priority right now is server and platform stability, and it’s already way smoother than it was a couple weeks ago. That being said, there are a ton of features planned and development seems to be going pretty quickly at the moment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The site is very new and is in active development. For now, it's mostly under the hood stuff but the stability of the experience increased quite a bit since I first started a week so they must be doing it right.

I believe the owner @ernest is doing the heavy lifting by himself.

[–] phil299 3 points 1 year ago

I had exactly the opposite experience, I joined a kbin and a lemmy instance and opened communities in both, definitely found lemmy easier to jump on too, and lemmy for me was more stable by a large chunk , but that might be the instance I am on seems very well run.

[–] phil299 1 points 1 year ago

Think of it as two types of cheese, both are gorgeous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are multiple instances of Kbin, you can see them at the bottom of this page.

The second most popular one at the moment seems to be https://fedia.io/, but yes https://kbin.social/ seems to be the most popular.