Kbin.social passes 50K users
Kbin.social passes 50K users
Two weeks after 30K users we reach 50K
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/35479/Kbin-social-passes-30k-Monthly-Active-Users
I feel good on kbin
Same. I've been on Reddit for almost 12 years and for so long now, every time I post or comment I go through a several-minute-long phase of "Ugh no one needs to hear from my stupid arse on this topic" and "Jesus Christ what a stupid ass comment..." Twitter I've been on years also but I barely use because it was going down the shitter long before Space Karen got his hands on it.
Been here in the Fediverse on Mastodon and Kbin for a few weeks now and it's like going from gas station sushi that may be fresh that day to a high end sushi shop with a great omakase. Reddit still has some subs that, in my own realm of interests, haven't picked up yet here in the Fediverse, but even just over the last 3 weeks the changes and increase in content has been very noticeable.
We feel good thar you're here :)
Same here! Been here since the blackout started, and it's been a fantastic community.
Happy to see it!! I'm enjoying my new home, and welcome others to do the same
Same here, lurked for a couple of days before making an account. Seems like a decent place to hang while doomscroll on the toilet.
Seems like a decent place to hang while doomscroll on the toilet.
I feel this comment.
Kbin has been great so far, massive props to the developers who are keeping this place running under a crushing influx of new people.
kbin definitely feels more... idk polished? compared to Lemmy. Lemmy feels like a proof of concept, while kbin feels like effort was actually put into it's UI. I bounce between both, but I certainly prefer kbin.
Squabbles feels even more polished.
@ripcord Squabbles is very slick. I think it does a great job of meeting its mission statement of being a cross between reddit and twitter. I think if it can scale well (it's still primarily a one-person effort I believe) it has a shot at being a serious reddit/twitter competitor. And its user interface feels modern, whereas both lemmy and kbin feel like they're a generation behind in terms of UX. (I know many ex-redditors prefer the old.reddit.com look & feel by the way, which is probably why they'd more likely to be drawn to the current crop of threadiverse sites, but the casual user is more likely to be drawn to something like squabbles.)
Squabbles was pretty for sure but it felt too peppy, for lack of a better word, to me.
Performance seems to not be an issue as well.
Turns out things run smoother, when you don't need to load your social network with tracking, telemetrics and advertisements.
Who could have guessed?
It's nice here. :)
Really like it here. Love the interface and lots of good posts already!
It's really exciting to see the community grow and develop. Two weeks ago there were barely any upvotes and comments. Now I see posts with several hundred upvotes and comments. /m/All has new content each and every time I visit. I see more and more Magazines come through. Saw a few posts above 1K upvotes already a few days ago. It's awesome!
KBin feels so fresh and I find myself posting here often now
I really like kbins layout/structure, it's like a mix of reddit and twitter and with some optimization could really be something special.
exciting to see kbin grow. it's really starting to get cozy here. not quite matching how i used to feel on reddit, but definitely starting to feel like home. I'm glad to see that more people are joining.
is the lemmyverse also similarly growing?
Lemmy.world topped 70,000 active users yesterday. It was a 40% growth in 12 hours, so pretty crazy. If you go there right now you can tell the servers are under heavy load.
I dig it here so far
Great progressive growth, it's a great place here
And it feels good to be one of them!
I visited that other place and it seems to have lost its spark. More reposts of stuff already seen, I think cutting off third party apps has really slowed the influx of fresh content.
Kbin is where that spark seems to have drifted, so I came right back to stay.
It feels like a construction site but I'm confident for the next months. This can grow into a great platform.
I weirdly quite like the 'construction site' vibe - We can and are shaping how kbin develps as it grows. Ernest (and the team now) are actively responding to pull requests, but more than that we are all shaping what content gets 'boosted' and is popular here.
Content has been flowing more noticeably around these parts recently. Lot more memes/posts/comments flying around and the number of votes for posts on FP has been increasing.
I've never been a part of an e-community from the get go and it feels so cool watching it transform in front of my eyes.
kbin is great, I even got used to the PWA. Still looking forward to the releases of Artemis and Kbam, since I exclusively use kbin from mobile.
There's a ton going on here. Hopefully the community can continue being this active. If that's the case, it will only grow.