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?

  • @[email protected]
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    121 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.

    • V699
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      71 year ago

      Kbin is a good ui. Lemmy has good data.

      • Kabe
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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.

    • @MiddleWeigh
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      11 year ago

      Yo i Iold at the active vs total users on that tracker. Dam bots. I’m not a tech person so I’m genuinely curious what they’re preparing for.