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submitted 1 year ago by gsa32@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

We all know that lemmy.world is the most popular instance, but how does it compare to kbin.social? Which do you think will be more popular in the long run?

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[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, you just made me realize that third party platforms don't seem to be tracking the active users on Lemmy accurately. Either that or kbin is defining an active user very generously and Lemmy is being more strict.

https://the-federation.info/node/details/48862 https://the-federation.info/node/details/49984

See how kbin.social and lemmy.world have nearly identical trajectories? Lemmy.world actually has significantly more posts and comments. However, lemmy.world only shows like 12k active users and kbin shows all 42k of it's users as active.

Incidentally, the answer to OP is that lemmy.world is slightly more popular now, but kbin.social is looking like they will overtake eventually.

This is a vital issue to get to the bottom of, because the narrative from reddit is going to be that Lemmy's userbase is all bots. And then you go to a page like this and it does look pretty bad.

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

If kbin is overcounting active users, we can leave that for later 😅. But if Lemmy is undercounting, we need to fix that ASAP.

[-] V699@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Kbin is a good ui. Lemmy has good data.

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thankfully, fixing Lemmy's UI on desktop is as simple as installing a CSS browser plugin and copy/pasting in one of the many custom themes that are already available.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where does one find custom themes?

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I see. I guess that means we still need more users 🫠

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