I’m a bit confused at the explosive growth of Lemmy and the slower growth of Kbin. Do the stats reflect the reality or is there a problem with the data being fed back to the various stat hubs?

I know the difference is partly because Lemmy was a larger platform, and is better known but the growth of Kbin seems suprisingly flat while the community seems to be getting more and more active?

  • yay@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Kbin’s docs for self-hosting are pretty incomplete. Lemmy’s docs are also awful but since they have a docker image and an ansible playbook, creating new instances is easier.

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      1 year ago

      Can you explain self hosting to me? Is that different than what I did by joining kbin.social?

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        1 year ago

        Yes, it’s different. Self-hosting means you set up a running version of kbin (or whatever) on your own server. All the different domains you see (lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, lemmy.world, kbin.social, fedia.io etc etc) are on their own servers. Theoretically you could also set up a version where you are the sole user even.