cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112 > I wrote the first line of code for /kbin on January 14, 2021. Around this time, I started working remotely and decided that the time I used to spend commuting to the office would be devoted to /kbin. Throughout this entire period, /kbin has been a hobby project that I developed in my free time. It was also when Lemmy started federating. The full history is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/ernestwisniewski). The Polish instance - or rather its prototype - was created on 2021-09-08. > > By the end of 2022, I decided to take this a bit more seriously. The work that had brought me much satisfaction began to tire me out - anyone who's experienced burnout likely knows what I'm talking about. I needed a breather and a sense of doing things my way. I had some savings put aside, so I could work on this full-time. The amount of code might not reflect this, but it's only a small part of the things that need attention in such a project ;) > > I don't know if it had any impact, but on January 4, 2023, I received information that the project had qualified for the [NGI0 Entrust program](https://nlnet.nl/project/Kbin/). I had applied for funding a few months earlier. Currently, I have outlined my milestones in the Roadmap. The plan was to gradually complete each stage (after finishing one of them, I can apply for a funds release). However, due to the situation and how /kbin has developed in recent weeks, I had to completely change my priorities. As a result, I have started each stage, but none is polished enough for me to honestly apply for a payout. I'll need to address this promptly. > > The fact that I could take certain steps amidst all this confusion is solely thanks to your support. The kindness I've encountered here will be remembered for a lifetime :) My buymeacoffee account currently has 818 supporters, who have donated $11,320. This is a lot of money, and for a while, I'll be able to sleep peacefully, not worrying about maintaining kbin.social. > > Nevertheless, this money is meant for project development. Every expense will be documented in monthly reports. If necessary, I can also provide insight into the invoices. Things have been so heated recently that I consider the spending over the past months to be a failure. Most of the costs need to go to S3+Cloudfront, where costs due to the traffic increased from $2-3 per month to $1,000. This is about half a year of basic servers in the current stack. But in hindsight - so much has happened that faster migration was impossible. However, this has certainly accelerated the process. > > None of this would have been possible without the contributors and project guardians, and without Piotr, with whom we spent many hours and sleepless nights trying to stabilize the situation and bring it to its current state. This time we're much better prepared for potential surprises. I hadn't set the terms of collaboration before and I admit, I had some concerns when we arranged a call to discuss this. However, it turned out that within the foundation, Piotr introduced a "Pay what you can" financing model, whether it's $1 or $100 a month. As I mentioned earlier, this is a huge relief for me and we started from scratch regarding security matters. > > Many of you asked me about the possibility of recurring support. I wasn't entirely convinced, especially since the current account balance should maintain the instance. However, I think it would be irresponsible of me not to consider it. /kbin has grown to a level where I can't foresee everything that will happen. It would be great if we could cover monthly costs with [Patreon](https://patreon.com/kbin_pub) / [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/kbin). All funds from [Buy Me a Coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin) will be transferred to this pool, but from now on, I'll treat it as buying me a coffee... or a beer... literally ;) > > For me, this also means maintaining critical zones for the project. I see this as a long-distance run, so I've decided to allocate: > > $100 monthly - donation to [Piotr's foundation](https://ftdl.pl/donate/) "Fundacja Technologie dla Ludzi" - I really encourage you to support it, they're really doing a lot for the fediverse. > $24 monthly - [donation to Codeberg](https://liberapay.com/codeberg) - a great ecosystem for free projects. We've been making quite a buzz there recently. > > I also want to support contributors and creators around /kbin as much as possible - but I'll do this privately, and for now, I can only afford symbolic amounts. > > ``` > | | | | $ | > | ------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------------ | ---- | > | Hetzner Jun 2, 2023 | €131.63 | one-time | 145 | > | Hetzner Jul 2, 2023 | €246.74 | one-time | 271 | > | OVH 24 cze 2023 | 2246.66 zł | 6 months | 553 | > | OVH 1 lip 2023 | 904.63 zł | monthly | 223 | > | OVH domains | 116.43 zł | annually | 30 | > | AWS (S3+Cloudfront) July 3, 2023 | $1079.21 | one-time | 1080 | > | AWS current | $320.45 | one-time | 321 | > | Mailgun 2023-07-02 | $49.76 | one-time | 50 | > | Testing enviroments, demo instances, landing page | $130 | monthly | 130 | > | FTDL | $100 | monthly | 100 | > | Codeberg | 95.33 zł | monthly | 24 | > | Yubico 2x YubiKey 5C NFC Jun 22, 2023 | €135.30 | one-time | 149 | > | Accounting and legal advice | $100 | one-time (?) | 50 | > | Taxes in Poland | ??? | | | > > ``` > > Thank you once again for that. I will respond to your questions, but it may be delayed as I have a few important tasks I want to focus on. Soon we will also write more about the cluster and the conclusions we have drawn from creating infrastructure with Piotr. Then it will be time for the first release of /kbin.

Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users: 1. [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/): 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users 2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users 3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users 4. [sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/): 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users 5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users 6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users 7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users 8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users 9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users 10. [programming.dev](https://programming.dev/): 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Created on June 1 of this year, [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) quickly grew to 51k users and then blew up after reddit's API debacle on July 1, doubling to a whopping 100k in just 9 days later!

We're seeing an increase from 53k active users at the beginning of July to 72k active users at the time of this post. According to Lemmy's documentation, an ***active user*** is "someone who has **posted or commented** on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” Lurkers aren't considered active users, so basically these are content creators on Lemmy. Sources: - https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html - https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30

[Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about **84.8k** users at the time of this post. Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable. So, welcome reddit expats!

[Lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) grew from around 51000 total users the moment 3rd party reddit apps started to shut down on June 30 to **71000** total users at the time of this post (July 1). That's a 40% growth in about 12 hours! Welcome new reddit expats!

From 2,997 active users across all lemmy instances at the beginning of June, the number increased to 52,797 by June 30th. [Source](https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30). An active user on Lemmy is "someone who has **posted or commented** on our instance or community within the last given time frame.” [Source](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html). That means lurkers are not counted as active users. There are currently almost 200k total users spread across the top 10 non-bot lemmy instances. We're really building something here! --- EDIT: Looking for a **lemmy app**? Here's a whole list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

From **528k** comments on June 1, 2023 to **5.7 million** comments on June 27, 2023. Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30 ----- Speaking of 3rd party apps, here's a list of all **lemmy apps** currently in development: https://lemmy.world/post/465785 For iOS, I'm testing Liftoff, Memmy, and Thunder. For Android, I'm testing Jerboa. What's everyone's favorite app so far?> The top two instances, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml have a total number of comments of 156331 and 188364. EDIT: [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/Elcapitan786) has pointed out that this stat is for total comments by day, not per day. Thanks for the correction.

From **3000** daily active users on June 1, 2023 to **47500** on June 26, 2023. According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who ***has posted or commented*** on our instance or community within the last given time frame." Sources: - https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30 - https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html ----- EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

Active users as of June 25, 2023: - [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/) (48k users): 13554 active users - lemmy.ml (38k users): 4582 active users - beehaw.org (11k users): 3743 active users - feddit.de (6.7k users): 2320 active users - [sh.itjust.works](https://sh.itjust.works/) (6.5k users): 2167 active users - lemmy.ca (3.5k users): 1082 active users Great to see all this growth and activity in different lemmy instances! Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

From 3000 daily users to 41000 active daily users! Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

In addition to [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/), the #2 real lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, seems to be growing as well. Our neighbor, [kbin.social](https://kbin.social/), has also reached the 40k milestone today. Sources: - https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list - https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7 In other news, Sync is coming to Lemmy.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7