Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing

data here

  • Alpagu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Untitled9999@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      The chart here shows 37,000 active users for Lemmy, and this chart here shows 45,000 active users for Kbin.

      And if the recent trend continues then those numbers should grow.

      • danc4498@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        What actually is kbin? Is it just Lemmy with a different user interface? Does it have multiple instances like Lemmy?

        • Tarte@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          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.

              • danc4498@lemmy.world
                3·
                2 years ago

                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?

                • Noumena@kbin.social
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  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.

                • b_crussin@kbin.social
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  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

        • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
          326·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • Phil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • guyman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • ptah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Expect a crazy peak around July 1st, that’s when reddit apps will shutdown, after that things should settle I think.

    • wheresyourshoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      What does “active” mean? Are lurkers considered active? Or do you have to vote/comment/post to be considered active?

  • src@lemmy.swrc.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The vast majority of this “growth” is from bots. It’s not genuine, unfortunately.

  • Tragic@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    It’s just like 14 people not understanding the software and creating accounts on every instance