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Just took a look at the stats on The-Federation.info and looks like Lemmy is doing just fine.
Lemmy Stats: 162 Nodes 90,053 Users 277,427 Posts 610,007 Comments
Kbin Stats: 7 Nodes 5,960 Users 3,992 Posts 4,844 Comments
I just noticed the same thing. I do not see a stat that shows kbin is overtaking lemmy.
Oh I am not saying it is not doing fine. I just found it super-interesting that a much younger project got ahead, even if perhaps only temporarily, as far as active users are concerned.
Honestly, many people are turned off by Lemmy tankies. I myself though I'd never come back to Lemmy until I found beehaw.
I keep hearing people commenting about that, but so far I haven't noticed any particular tankie-ish influence.
Maybe I'm just not choosing the communities where they hang out?
The problem is lemmy.ml From what I get, a lot of the old guard (before the Reddit exodus) are tankies. That includes the admins and mods. And Lemmy.ml was or still is the biggest instance because new people automatically choose the server of the Lemmy devs (Because many people don't understand the concept of federation).
Lemmy.ca blocks lemmygrad just like Beehaw so you can't see anything from the biggest tankie community on Lemmy.
You can see this here https://lemmy.ca/instances
So for those of us that do t have any association or federation with the "tankie lemmy", there shouldn't be any taint, right?
Yeah, there shouldn't be posts/comments to the communities that block Lemmygrad and in those that can like lemmy.ml's communities - I believe that you can't see them.
Would kbin's current non-federation because of cloudflare stuff be stopping the-federation.info from accessing more recent stats?
I believe there was a post by a Kbin hoster that they had to set up a specifc rule in Cloudflare to get around the issue. Although AFAIK I would assume that Cloudflare could definitely be causing some issues for some instances which may not be set up correctly to get around the issue, which in turn could lead to the issue your suggesting. But then again don't quote me on any of this I'm not a dev for any of the projects, and I'm basing this on my own projects where getting around Cloudflare to scrap data is a complete pain and sometimes more work then it's worth.