I’m a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?
I know the difference is partly because Lemmy was a larger platform, and is better known but the growth of Kbin seems suprisingly flat while the community seems to be getting more and more active?
Seems pretty even to me:
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse(Should not look at created accounts, those are spammers)
It’s actually the opposite. Kbin has been growing faster than Lemmy.
And that’s surprising, given it’s s newer, less-established platform. But it’s not like Lemmy was a household name before this.
I can give only my impression why I have chosen kbin. Better looking, more clear interface.
Yeah there’s something about the way kbin works that just resonates with me more than Lemmy.
Lemmy was just ready first. Kbin at the time wasn’t linked to the other instances yet, and was very slow, and had a lot of cloudflare issues.
It really doesn’t matter long-term because Kbin can interact with Lemmy anyway.
Just a minor correction, kbin unfederated during the great migration due to user explosion. Kbin also activated cloud flare to keep bots from marching in. Kbin went back to being federated after @ernest felt safe doing so. Some Lemmy instances unfederated too.
