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Why is Kbin seemingly growing considerably slower than Lemmy? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social to c/kbin@kbin.social

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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?

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[–] Mars2k21@kbin.social 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Probably because of the endorsement of Lemmy by subreddits, which has been far greater than the endorsement of Kbin. Lemmy's also just been around far longer than Kbin. Those server issues that Kbin encountered during the whole explosion of users also likely slowed down growth a bit. Even with Lemmy's bot problem I think these have made it grow faster anyway.

[–] jesus_fish@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have been trying to login to Lemmy for the past 2 days and just get a spinning wheel

[–] Yamspunk@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I have the same problem on mobile (both through browser and Memmy), but not on my desktop. Really annoying. Been using Reddit since 2009. Feels really odd to switch things up, but lemmy.world, kbin and squabbles seems like potentially good alternatives. I wonder which one will end up being "the one".

[–] Mintyytea@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It iis easier to sign up for kbin I think because kbin lets you sign up with google or facebook. I did gmail google sign up because I like being lazy.

Kbin is slightly more confusing (they named everything a little weird), so if you do make a kbin.social account lmk or ask many questions about how to do stuff. It’s easy once I knew stuff like magazine = subreddit

[–] Ender2k@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I created my Lemmy account first, because it was easier to remember for me than kbin...

[–] McBinary@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Same, but I've abandoned that account completely in lieu of kbin.

[–] cjerrington@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I also think some of the growth of Lemmy is the ability to get the project to a functioning stance. The start of Kbin still seems a little rocky, but getting better.