and growing at a faster rate. Is this true? Seeing as how Lemmy can’t communicate with Kbin but Kbin can with Lemmy it seems like Kbin might be the better bet or am I missing something?
The only reason we can’t communicate with Kbin is that Kbin is currently under siege with all the new signups and isn’t federating properly. It’s a problem from their side too.
Once they can get stable and federate normally the two will be able to communicate just fine, like we were doing before the sudden influx.
Edit: That said, if you prefer the look and feel of Kbin there’s no reason not to go with that instead. Maybe wait til they sort themselves out though :D
This is the thread I saw: https://lemmy.world/post/61179
I’ve seen the graphs in that post, and it’s pretty clear from how precisely kbin’s graph tracks Lemmy’s that what’s going on here is some endpoint is being queried that counts federated Lemmy users as part of the kbin network. The numbers linked in the thread parent you replied to are the better ones.
I don’t think anyone is trying to pull a fast one here. One of the big challenges of federation is keeping how different apps represent similar data in sync. I think kbin just has some user-count endpoint that quite reasonably counts federated Lemmy users as part of the kbin network (which they are). People are misinterpreting that data though as representing native kbin accounts, which is an incorrect interpretation (and probably incorrect presentation from the stats site… but almost certainly a well meaning error.
The bulk of users are on kbin.social, which is experiencing major issues (currently defederated, stats not populating). Lemmy and Kbin can communicate with each other when there aren’t server issues involved.
In my short time on Kbin vs. Lemmy, the communities seem quite different already. Kbin reminds me of Reddit today: lots of one line answers and sarcasm, some rude comments too. Lemmy (and Beehaw) so far seem more genuine with more thorough discussions and feels like Reddit did 10 years ago.
I think lemmy is rather attracting the OG redditors and early internet users. It’s a bit quirky here and there but it reminds you of the old times and the people from back then.
I personally dislike Kbin
I’ve not been on there. What do you dislike?
they are both part of the fediverse, choose either platform and profit. The technical issues will get sorted out.
I wasn’t fond of the UI on kbin so I can over here. I know a lot of communities moved over there from Reddit so once they federate again I might join some of those communities but I’m enjoying the communities and content here and don’t really miss anything.
