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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Despite the tankie stuff I prefer the interface of Lemmy, though I have accounts on both. Love that they federate. Things are happening.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (9 children)

just looked for the first time, I really do prefer kbin's UI to Lemmy's right now at least the default web client. Is there value in running both or just one?

I notice I can see mastadon posts on lemmy as well but how do I find stuff on Kbin or Mastadon from lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're on desktop, I made a style that uses the Stylus add on to not look like shit

https://userstyles.world/style/10309/densify-for-lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what I think most of us newcomers are struggling to figure out right now. Do I need a Mastadon account and a Lemmy account, or can I just use one to see the rest? Is there a better Android app or other website to integrate it all? Is matrix.org a part of all of this fediverse stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Any ideas what are the pros and cons of each option?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Here's a post discussing that: https://feddit.de/post/781919

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (18 children)

Hmm, interesting. I just spent some time getting a Lemmy instance set up -- maybe I should've gone for kbin instead?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

i think you can engage and interact across both so it may not matter as much.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (9 children)

https://kbin.pub/en

A different instance software for Reddit-like discussions. It federates with Lemmy instances, so it's all a nice single network.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Looks like this post didn't age very well

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[–] Zoidsberg 8 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What are the pros and cons of one platform over the other? Is KBin just Lemmy+Mastodon? Can Lemmy see KBin magazines?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail

Umm, you really should have launched this before shutting down the current tools mods use.

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