Seems the growth shows no sign of slowing

data here

  • Alpagu@lemmy.world
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    1 year 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.

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      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.

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

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          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.

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          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.

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      1 year 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.