2y ago

kbin.social is getting the hug of death right now, consider signing up for another instance

Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it's getting.

Luckily, there are a few other kbin instances that you can use right now! kilioa.org and fedia.io have recently popped up over the last few days, and they're still running smoothly during the Reddit blackout. They're also still federating with Lemmy, so you can see posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.ml (federation is currently disabled on kbin.social due to the cloudflare protection).

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noob question, how can I comment on kilioa.org or fedia.io from kbin.social?
- Good news, you don't need to do anything special. If you post to a magazine that a user on those instances subscribes to, they'll see your content; and same in reverse where you'll see the content you're subscribed to regardless of the instance that content is posted from. If you comment on a post that they posted, they'll see that too.
  
  Yeah, but how?
  Let's say I want to reply to this thread:
  https://kilioa.org/m/apexlegends/t/87/Welcome-to-Apex-Legends
  I'm asked to log-in, but credentials from kbin.social do not work, so, how do I do it?
So does this mean kbin is not gonna work out?
- Not at all! We just need a combination of A) more new instances popping up, B) some people moving to other instances because they like them better or they run faster, and C) kbin.social admins scaling up this instance. It's just an adjustment process.
  The good thing about fediverse services is that as long as there are people willing to throw up a server, you can just keep scaling - unlike on a centralised service where if the owner doesn't scale, that's tough.
  
  I love your username :)
  How do I move to another instance if I signed up at .social?
FYI: If you've got some spare cash - consider buying Kbin/Ernest a coffee! Servers ain't cheap - but maybe he can pour the coffee into them to speed them up.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
- The hard part is putting the magic smoke back inside.
- Done.
- I didn't know Kbin ran on Java.
  
  On some level everything on the internet runs on Java. And Adderall.

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