Kbin federates with Lemmy and mastodon. Lemmy has more users so more people voting up things there, but a lot of that front page is posted from kbin. Devs are not focusing on lemmy unless they’re Lemmy people. There are devs focusing on kbin too. We now have an active kbin enhancement suite going, just like RES used to be for reddit. So customizing how you interact with fedi is more in your control. Artemis app is being done by @hariette, and beta users are super happy with it.
That’s because there was no API available until now, so development relied on scraping. Development should pick up a bit now that one is almost released.
That’s because kbin lacks an official API, which this PR should fix.
I know personally I was looking into modding an old Reddit client to use kbin but found that it didn’t have an API so held off. I’m sure there are many other devs that are doing the same.
Kbin was just a year old when everyone went there. It went from a few hundred to a couple thousand and then to 50k users in a couple weeks. It was literally one person, @ernest, until a few weeks ago. Lemmy has had a few years of people working on it, an active subreddit for a few years. The Lemmy creators were active on several subs for years. It’s not a surprise that kbin just now has more than one person working on developing.
The active userbase isn’t too far off from Lemmy’s, roughly 40k compared to Lemmy’s 70k. As for the content, it doesn’t really mater what service is hosting the community since it’s all federated. There are large kbin magazines as well.
and kbin seems to federate REAAAALLLY slowly in my experience. A lemmy post will have 100+ comments on any lemmy instance, but then you view it in kbin and there’s like 5 comments. My profile when viewed in kbin is days/weeks behind.
It feels so empty and like you’re in the past lol.
KBin is weird. The few times I’ve looked it’s been all lemmy content for the first several pages of the front page of kbin.social
Like it just seems like a weird Lemmy front end at this point, in practical terms.
And with its total user base much smaller than Lemmy’s, it’s understandable devs are focusing on Lemmy.
Kbin federates with Lemmy and mastodon. Lemmy has more users so more people voting up things there, but a lot of that front page is posted from kbin. Devs are not focusing on lemmy unless they’re Lemmy people. There are devs focusing on kbin too. We now have an active kbin enhancement suite going, just like RES used to be for reddit. So customizing how you interact with fedi is more in your control. Artemis app is being done by @hariette, and beta users are super happy with it.
I’m not saying ALL devs are focusing on Lemmy.
But Lemmy has like 15 mobile apps, 3 web frontends, a Mac App or two, etc.
KBin has a handful.
It’s not a contest though, just how it is
That’s because there was no API available until now, so development relied on scraping. Development should pick up a bit now that one is almost released.
That’s because kbin lacks an official API, which this PR should fix.
I know personally I was looking into modding an old Reddit client to use kbin but found that it didn’t have an API so held off. I’m sure there are many other devs that are doing the same.
Kbin was just a year old when everyone went there. It went from a few hundred to a couple thousand and then to 50k users in a couple weeks. It was literally one person, @ernest, until a few weeks ago. Lemmy has had a few years of people working on it, an active subreddit for a few years. The Lemmy creators were active on several subs for years. It’s not a surprise that kbin just now has more than one person working on developing.
The difference is. All those Lemmy Apps are buggy as heck. I just use kbin Website as an app with Vanadium. Works perfectly fine and no issues.
The active userbase isn’t too far off from Lemmy’s, roughly 40k compared to Lemmy’s 70k. As for the content, it doesn’t really mater what service is hosting the community since it’s all federated. There are large kbin magazines as well.
and kbin seems to federate REAAAALLLY slowly in my experience. A lemmy post will have 100+ comments on any lemmy instance, but then you view it in kbin and there’s like 5 comments. My profile when viewed in kbin is days/weeks behind.
It feels so empty and like you’re in the past lol.
If it helps, I can see all your most recent comments.
Where are you seeing the kbin userbase size?
FediDB is a good source and made by the Pixelfed dev.