Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing
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.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?
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?
Yes itβs much better and sorting seems stable.
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 devβs priority right now is server and platform stability, and itβs 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.
Hello from kbin!
IT'S A SPY! GET EM!!!!
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.
Lemmy is where it's at. I'm noticing an insane jump in quality. It feels like everyone on reddit wants to be a comedian or repeat the same thing 1000 times just to show they fit in.
I've checked Reddit a few times the past few days and I've started to notice how many comments are the same inside jokes over and over again. The hive mind really looks different when you're on the outside.
I bet many of those are just reposting bots.
Unfortunately these are most bots, which you can see from the active user ratio
What does "active" mean? Are lurkers considered active? Or do you have to vote/comment/post to be considered active?
Expect a crazy peak around July 1st, that's when reddit apps will shutdown, after that things should settle I think.
I imagine there will still be a higher than normal amount of growth, but not as steep, through the rest of the summer as other people give up on Reddit after the changes. Some casual users may not understand what's going on, but they'll notice the changes through July and August without all the 3rd party people and the mods who leave/have left/got removed, which may drive them to alternatives.
The vast majority of this "growth" is from bots. It's not genuine, unfortunately.
I understand a large part of it is an influx of spam bots on unsecured instances so don't get too excited quite yet.
I have not seen a great deal of evidence of spam bots yet myself
Me neither, very glad our various admins are on top of it all. There's an interesting update on the situation from the admin of lemm.ee here https://lemmy.world/post/378640
That's uh.... spam! :D
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