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I think in part it's that a few Lemmy communities are extremely active / almost spammy and there's no algorithm filtering how much content you get from each place. In the "All" view, most of the content I see comes from the same couple of Lemmy "meme" communities. So it's no wonder most of the content I'm seeing comes from Lemmy when almost all of it comes from two specific communities which are basically meme factories. If I filter those out, there's suddenly a much bigger variety of content from all around and on my "Subscribed" tab I can see plenty of activity from Kbin communities.

I'll admit it, I've been enjoying the Lemmy activity. Kbin has a better interface and better integration with Mastodon, but I like that we can hook into the other threadiverse apps. I've barely noticed that it's not native kbin content.

Although this bean thing has me avoiding /all right now.

I’m sick with all the dumb posts of poop and beans

I mean, they share the backend communities/magazines, so it shouldn't matter where a given one lives, but you can turn off showing federated content and you'll only see stuff on kbin.social. Won't see stuff on other kbin instances, though.

Click the little button with three connected nodes. In the desktop Kbin Web UI, it's in the right-hand sidebar. On mobile, it's near the bottom.

Beneath that, you'll see a "Federation status". Click "off".

Don't forget to turn it back on later, though.

You can also browse the list of magazines on kbin.social. Those will all be local.

You can also browse just content on one instance, like only communities on one Lemmy or kbin server, by using the /d/ prefix. So, to view stuff on fedia.io, which also runs kbin, you can do this:

https://kbin.social/d/fedia.io

Or you could just browse to fedia.io's Web UI:

https://fedia.io/

And then do the same "toggle off federated content" thing to see only content on fedia.io.

I don't think that there's a convenient way to see all content from all federated kbin servers but to exclude content on Lemmy servers, though.

1. Go to magazine search.
2. Sub to the ones you like.
3. Also sub to the communities on whatever Lemmies you like
4. Go to your general settings.
5. Click the attached image.

And why should that matter? That's the whole point of the fediverse.

Kbin.social had been having some issues in the last couple days between a server migration and a huge message backlog.

Same observation I made here too. Seems like the API for kbin is still being developed.

My dumb ass understanding:

Lemmy has an API that allows for easier and more featured app deployment than kbin.

The vast majority of social media and forum users are fucking around on their phones, and therefore want apps that make it more convenient and better formatted than a phone’s web browser.

Hence, Lemmy is getting more traction because of app availability and features.

I don't know as a moderator of a few magazine it is really difficult to get people to post.

I'm keeping a foot in both domains (and one in lemmy.ml). I'll probably go "primary" on whichever system seems most stable, but right now everything is going up and down. Doesn't matter, I spent more than a decade on reddit, I can wait for the Fediverse to calm down a bit.

It's a mix. I see the same thing as you, but I've also seen some stuff on some Lemmy instances while hopping outside of Kbin that hasn't propagated. Federating is difficult, it seems. It's also hard sometimes to recognize where the post you're replying to really came from, as the link is a Kbin copy. I think there's some URL highlighting addons I haven't looked into yet. Not that it matters to me, as long as my stuff gets out there eventually.

I've noticed that too, and Lemmy people are freakishly devoted to "advertising" it (to the point where I'm like, is this some kind of a socmedia tankie/corporate farm??) but...eh whatever.....I absolutely love shitposting.

And why should that matter? That's the whole point of the fediverse.

It would be nice if Kbin had a “local” sort option like Lemmy does.

Edit: The option does exist, but it’s in a completely different spot: https://kbin.social/m/kbin/t/79735/How-often-do-you-turn-federation-off#comments

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that Lemmy simply is older and better known, and both leads to more communities being created there, which then leads to more content being created there, even if it's kbin users creating that content.

While kbin was only launched a few months ago (April?), Lemmy launched in 2019. Both didn't get much traction before the Reddit blackout, but for the Lemmy users there was more time to create communities which already were there then when kbin users started looking for them. Even those communities that were created on both had a chance of already having a parallel community on Lemmy that possibly was more active (i.e. had at least some posts), so future posters might have decided for the Lemmy one more likely.
And for the "more popular" thing: Lemmy usually was named as the alternative to Reddit, so many Reddit users came to Lemmy, looked for communities they were missing, and created them, possibly before learning of kbin and eventually moving there themselves.

I mean, largely to me this is fine and great as long as the reverse is also true. It's fabulous to have two totally independent systems that are fully interoperable to such an extent.

I don't think there's a meaningful competition in growth or anything, that's just a number. The main downside is reduced development focus...

But -- If Lemmy is like a frontend for kbin and vice versa, isn't that fine? The Lemmy apps will load kbin posts and kbin apps will load lemmy posts.

Lemmy is older than kbin, so it already has a lot of established communities.