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.