Introducing https://feddit.online, a new KBIN server
Introducing https://feddit.online, a new KBIN server
I've brought up a new KBIN instance, https://feddit.online
It's administrated from the Greater Boston, Massachusetts area. Everyone is welcome to sign up, so long as they follow the rules
I now, because I must be crazy, have 4 Fediverse servers running.
KBIN: https://feddit.online
Mastodon: https://hear-me.social
Calckey: https://bostonsocial.online
Peertube: https://my-sunshine.video
There is a typo in your link, it goes to fedit.online instead of feddit.online
Also what magazines do you have over there? I had a quick look but am on mobile and can't remember how to find that!
Yeah. I noticed the typo right after I uploaded the message. I quickly edited it but I find that changes made to a message take a while to replace the original.
I currently have 303 magazines, 301 pointing to several other KBIN and Lemmy instances. I visited several instances and manually linked to magazines that had a lot of users. Magazines from anywhere else can be added by using the global search (the search icon at the very top), not the search associated with the magazine listings, and using the full name, like @linux
The magazines can be seen at https://feddit.online/magazines
Nice, thank you. I'll give it a gander
Congratulations!
Side note, did you want the symfony explorer to show up for people? https://feddit.online/_profiler/a687ea?panel=db
Yeah the Symfony Toolbar shows up at the bottom of the homepage for me. I've never used Symfony before, but it looks like a developer tool, not something you want running in your production environment. ;) @Jerry
Since you have experience, can I ask how much you expect it to cost to run? I have a couple decades in IT, an AWS cert, a great domain name, and a bit of disposable income. I’m thinking of putting one up myself.
The cost depends on who you use for hosting. I use Digital Ocean which is a bit more expensive than others, like Hetzner, but Digital Ocean has some additional services that make life a bit easier, so I use it.
I also use Cloudflare for caching and protection, but it's free for hobbyists and small businesses.
There are some small costs for keeping snapshots. Less than a couple of dollars/month.
At Digital Ocean, a 4 vCPU, 8GB server is $48/month. Snapshots might be a couple more dollars a month. I'm currently running KBIN on a server half this size but I will be bumping it up to the $48/month option in the next few days.
Another incidental cost would be domain name registration.
I can't think of anything else you would need to pay for.
I also use Cloudflare for caching and protection
looks like you weren't here the previous days. There is serious problem with cloudflare and federation since cloudflare will start blocking all the attempts of other intances trying to communicate with your instance. The browser JS validation, has to be turned off.
DB would be a big one, no? Not sure what Kbin is using, but DB costs tend to be meaningful as well, especially since depending on how the app is designed the usage requirements can sort of parity the app hosting requirements itself. Plus storage, but that can be more variable depending on how robust you want it to be. Ie S3 is pretty robust but it's expensive, etc.
Im curious how he worked through the docs to get it online. I tried for a day or so a week ago but could not get the service to come online. Just 500 errors galore.
Noob question - Could I use the same login here to log into yours?
No, federation only mirrors content across instances, not user profiles. Mastodon has an account migration feature, but kbin doesn't have that yet.
you'd have to create another account with the same name over there. there's not much point though, if you see a community over there that you'd want to subscribe, you can do that from your current account.
This is another thing I don’t get. Is there a way to view a list of ALL communities across all Fediverse instances, preferably ordered by size? Doesn’t even have to be searchable, I’d just start with a list.
Needing to jump from instance to instance, searching their available magazines - as a Kbin user - seems so clunky for something with so much promise.
I hope to God I’m doing this wrong.
you don't need to visit the pages of the other instances directly. If you visit them, then no, the same login is not working.
But you can find the content of other instances inside your "own" instance. For example the main community of that instance can be found here https://kbin.social/m/feddit@feddit.online
I highly doubt it; it's a separate "site", but it would federate with existing instances (presumably). You would have to make a new account there, follow the different mags you do here, and then delete this account.
Not sure if this is what is being discussed. But, you don't need to have an account on a KBIN instance to read the magazines. You just can't post anything. For example, https://readit.buzz/magazines will work. The same is true for Lemmy servers. I didn't create any Lemmy accounts to look through their communities (magazines)
No
Ok, so what is it with people named Jerry and the need to spin up fediverse instances? (infosec.exchange, fedia.io etc admin is also Jerry)
Seriously though - nice work!
:) Compared to Jerry Bell, I'm more of the Jerry Jr.
I'm getting an error when I try to login with Google.
Access blocked: Authorization Error Missing required parameter: client_id Learn more about this error If you are a developer of this app, see error details. Error 400: invalid_requestI'm surprised it offer the option to sign up with Google since I don't have that enabled. Only email address registration works now. I'll have to play with Federated sign ups. Maybe this weekend