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

  • HawkMan@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy doesn’t federated with mastodon type servers.

    Kbin is the one you need if you want both reddit style fediverse and Twitter style fediverse. Lemmy only does link aggregation/reddit.

    Lemmy should get kbin content but I’m not sure it federates it because kbin allows NSFW and lemmy… Does not for the most part.

    • manitcor@lemmy.intai.techEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      is that a software restriction or just generally a difference in the 2 communities? does kbin allow nodes to block like mastadon and lemmy?

      I swear im seeing posts cross over between these systems, might just be my exhaustion.

      • HawkMan@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        It’s a software difference. Kbin is just made to be both reddit and Twitter. Lemmy is only made to be reddit. Basically.

        Kine currently has problems with federation because of their cloudflare anti spam.

        Under magazines you should get reddit like stuff and Twitter stuff under… Whatever the other is called. You might get content from both under the comments sections, but I thought that was only reddit type content comments.

    • Mummelpuffin@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy absolutely does federate with Mastodon servers, what are you on about? I’ve seen people posting here from Mastodon accounts, using hash tags and @s in their post, and having the posts show up as posts they’ve made on their Mastodon instance as well.