Looks like KBin has an edge over Lemmy now in terms of monthly active users.

It’s obviously a pretty silly thing, and is not in any way indicative of which project is “better” or more “long-term viable” or anything — instances of both federate with one another, and with the rest of fedi, so it’s all one happy family.

That said, it’s notable. KBin is a relative newcomer to the “Reddit-like fedi instance” game, and also does not have the tankie baggage.

Anyway, the more, the merrier!

KBin: https://the-federation.info/platform/184

Lemmy: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Discussion on fedi: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110527049024028986

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I know this is a joke, but not only is KBin built on PHP, but so are Facebook, Pornhub, and Wikipedia.

    • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure there’s some php still around at Facebook, but I doubt any new php projects have been started in 10+ years at any of those organizations.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        You’d be surprised. Modern PHP with Laravel can actually be quite nice to work with.

        • bouncing@partizle.comEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I’m sure it is, and I hear good things about Laravel, but you’re still working under some really bad decisions made in the past. That’s always the problem with great frameworks on bad languages: the frameworks are great, but you can’t escape the past.

          I’d point you to r/lolphp, but well, you know. Instead, I'll just leave this here.