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Now when I go to the Hot page it’s 12 hours out of date.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

  • readbeanicecream@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    @Seraph According to https://status.lemm.ee the federation is not receiving data on real time from any kbin or mbin instance. I am following kbinmeta there and the most recent post is from three days ago. Fedia and kbin.run (both mbin) looks like two weeks ago is the earliest.

    Edit: Looks like ot took about 21 hours for a kbin post to hit lemm.ee. No comments
    …just post. So a 21 one hour delay so far.