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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

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[–] biscuitsofdoom@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (19 children)
[–] MrSpectroscopy@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure, but it looks similar to lemmy. It's "federated"? I wonder if we can see kbin links through our lemmy server? Just trying to figure this all out...

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My understanding is that people on kbin can interact with Lemmy instances. Not sure if that goes the other way though

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am subscribed to a kbin community through lemmy. I will check. Please wait.

[–] osaerisxero@fedia.io 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KBin.social turned on cloudflare recently (today?) and it broke their federation crossconnects

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, you are right. It looks like they stated that this is only temporary.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw somebody mention that kbin recently implemented cloudflare protection that breaks federation with Lemmy

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the main instance, kbin.social, is struggling under load right now. There are other instances though, like https://fedia.io/

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, but they stated that this is just temporary.

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