Hello, you might have noticed (or not) that posts from kbin, more specifically kbin.social aren't showing anywhere, this is due the DDoS protection they currently have on. So even if you are subscribed to kbin.social communities you won't see any posts from the outside.
I’m so impressed with how devs and community members across federated content spaces are handling the technological and communications challenges that are arising as many of us are flocking and trying to talk with each other and grow new communities.
This has got to be a really fun but tough time for those behind the scenes—thank you, all of you!!
I find it hard to believe there are 125,000 users on kbin...are we sure it isn't reporting stats from all the servers it's federated with (and therefore including Lemmy)?
I too am curious how this number is generated. For an instance of 125k users, the interactions seem quite low. "Top" items are at the top of the list with 500-1000 upvotes... and only ~100 comments.
It's honestly amazing how much interest Kbin has gotten despite constant server issues and no federation. I expected it to be a little less active but when I visited there was a bustling community there! I hope they open federation soon so I can spend more time there.
The no federation is recent (and due to the antiDDoS measures as mentioned in the post). I've engaged with some communities on their and talk with some people from it. I personally haven't checked it out, but a lot of what I've heard is that it's an easier onboarding experience.
Joining is immediate, where some Lemmy instances require manual approval even now.
The main page comes off as more approachable and familiar. They also have a ton of local communities (or "Magazines") so people can do a lot even without the Federation. I find the Microblog stuff somewhat confusing, I think because it doesn't have much of a UI built around it so it is less familiar than Mastodon. It is fairly centralized though, in the sense that there aren't that many kbin instances out there.
I think that kbin is very promising, but I feel like it is early days yet. Even if they don't end up being the dominant platform, I feel like some of the features they are working on will persist.
My understanding believe kbin federates with three rest of the fediverse, (activity pub?) including Lemmy and mastodon, but not necessarily the other way around for their users.
From here, you should be able to see and comment to users on Lemmy insurance, as long as they are not blocking federation with your kbin instance.