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.
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: MicrobloggingYou 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 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?
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.
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
Hello from kbin!
IT’S A SPY! GET EM!!!
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.
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.
exactly :-)
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.
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.
It’s just like 14 people not understanding the software and creating accounts on every instance
Raising my hand.
I feel personally attacked.
Me too…
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?
Not sure you can infer that from this chart as I believe it counts active users and contributors so lurkers won’t show up, of course will will have a lot of people checking us out. Not that bots won’t be an issue in the future they will.
I understand a large part of it is an influx of spam bots on unsecured instances so don’t get too excited quite yet.
But we can get excited that lemmy.world is the largest non-bot instance with 37k users.
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
good catch
That’s uh… spam! :D
Spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam …spaaaammm glorious spam
