First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I’ve been rooting for him this whole time. But it’s becoming clear it’s all too much for him without the support of a larger team.

Over the last several months there have been multiple posts about the spam problems on this instance, both here and on other instances. We’ve been fortunate so far they haven’t simply defederated us.

Now when I go to the Hot page it’s 12 hours out of date.

It’s with a heavy heart I looked into a kbin fork mentioned in another thread in this magazine: Mbin.

GitHub: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

Instance list: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

The largest instance: https://fedia.io/

I’ll miss you Kbin. It’s been good. Thanks Ernest!

It’s not the purpose of this post to support any particular instance. Feel free to mention your own alternatives below.

  • sab@kbin.social
    6·
    8 months ago

    I appreciate kbin a lot and I hope Ernest will get back to development when he’s ready, but I don’t think it makes sense for him also to be responsible for administrating a major instance. That’s a huge job.

    I’m not entirely sure where I’d move to yet, but if kbin.social is not properly moderated it makes sense to go elsewhere. At some point other instances might have no choice but to defederate.

    That’s different from giving up on the software - I do still appreciate Kbin a lot. :)

    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
      3·
      8 months ago

      I see alot of people complaining about this or that on the site, but not interacting with what people who are posting are still posting. Not posting anything of their own save complains about the site being as fucked ever it was or instigating jumping ship.

      Honestly it’s hard to tell what people want at times.

      • sab@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        I guess the beautiful thing of being federated is that the content is separate from the software. If people enjoy the software but find kbin.social to be too unstable, they might very well jump ship to https://fedia.io/ or something (or even start their own instance), and we will still get to enjoy their content. :)

        I don’t have much patience for people complaining about how their instances are being run considering how easy it is to move somewhere else. Discussions and constructive criticism is of course a different matter, but the beauty of the fediverse as far as I’m concerned is that you can take the “if you don’t like it, go somewhere else” attitude to the extreme without really being a jerk. :)