The total number of active users in the last month would be a much more accurate statistic. The number of users does not give the correct result due to bot accounts.
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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Its a completely different link agreggator software. But since both Lemmy and kbin are based on the ActivityPub protocol, instances of both can federate with each other. Hence, lemmy users can see content posted on kbin instances and vice versa.
It is not just active users , we have gone from under 100 nodes (instances) to over 300 in June alone , I really love the distributed network idea, I could see large sub from reddit running there own instance where they really have control of the destiny of there community.
The total number of active users in the last month would be a much more accurate statistic. The number of users does not give the correct result due to bot accounts.
The chart here shows 37,000 active users for Lemmy, and this chart here shows 45,000 active users for Kbin.
And if the recent trend continues then those numbers should grow.
What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?
Hello from kbin!
IT’S A SPY! GET EM!!!
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).
How can I see posts from Kbin?
Just look at all posts, some will pop up
Thanks, man.
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.
Switched to kbin? How is it’s front page aggregation? Is it closer to reddit than Lemmy?
Have a look, you don’t need to register just to see how it is: https://kbin.social/
Yes it’s much better and sorting seems stable.
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.
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?
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
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.
I’ll check that out too… I like the comment UI better in Lemmy, but everything else seems better in Kbin.
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.
Think of it as two types of cheese, both are gorgeous.
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.
Thanks!
Its a completely different link agreggator software. But since both Lemmy and kbin are based on the ActivityPub protocol, instances of both can federate with each other. Hence, lemmy users can see content posted on kbin instances and vice versa.
Actually lemmy has over half a million total users and Kbin stands at about 50,000 the 37,000 number is just the lemmy.world users
Here is the active users last month curve
It is not just active users , we have gone from under 100 nodes (instances) to over 300 in June alone , I really love the distributed network idea, I could see large sub from reddit running there own instance where they really have control of the destiny of there community.
Like https://startrek.website/
exactly :-)