As of right now:
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kbin.social has 36,508 total users: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/kbin.social
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lemmy.ml has 36,185: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.ml
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lemmy.world has 33,945: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.world
Well done, kbinauts!
(For completeness: Lemmy as a whole is still much larger than kbin by 330,192 users to 41,477.)
My only concern about both as things grow more (we’re not done yet by far) is the best way to distribute new accounts. I had no clue when I made my kbin account that there were others, and I’m guessing more may come online as people who can host figure it out.
kbin and lemmy both need a site where people can sign up and be ‘recommended’ an instance that is load-balanced based on user count.
@Rhaedas
Whats your concern? That you didn’t know lemmy.ml existed and thought kbin was “the” thing people were talking about?
Sorry, to clarify - there are other kbin servers besides the main .social one, although most are in other countries and wouldn’t suite me anyway. Point is, right now it’s a best guess and no real guidance on the best route to take for someone totally new to the idea.
@Rhaedas where can I find a list of these servers? Also, is there a way to see which servers kbin.social federates to and defederates? I know on Lemmy it’s simply /instances
kbin.pub has the listings under instances. I don’t know of any defederation with anyone and kbin.social.
@Rhaedas As far as I can see, this is a list of Kbin instances that exist, not a list of what any kbin instance is federated to or defederated from.
@Rhaedas This is all the information that they have of any instance, which doesn’t include their (un)links: https://i.ibb.co/Z6zWgz2/image.png
source: https://fedidb.org/docs/api/v1, under
/software/{slug}