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 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.
@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.)
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'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!
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.
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 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.
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