Definitely. As a fellow kbean, I was enjoying my time in our funny little walled garden, but the community suddenly expanding ten-fold overnight was pretty spectacular.
kbin has not been defederated from Beehaw, so interactions between those servers are continuing as normal. There's lots of posts about how "we" are defederated from Beehaw on the kbin front page, but those aren't coming from kbin itself, they're just showing up on the kbin front page because they're popular content in the threadiverse.
We (all of us, not a specific instance) should probably get into the habit of referring to our instances by name instead of just saying "us", "we", etc. because it causes exactly this kind of confusion when we don't.
Personally, I feel like having the block button constantly appearing next to every magazine name might be overkill. I'd be happy to have an interface like ...
I've used the Google cache a couple of times so Reddit doesn't get the impression, but I certainly don't think it's morally wrong to just hit the site directly if it has something you need.
I'd suggest grabbing it directly from the source. The ROM is continually being updated; they're on v1.2 now and actively making bug fix releases. The sensible approach is to find the file using a PC web browser's dev tools (Ctrl+Shift+I on Firefox, Chrome or Edge). This will open up a sidebar in your browser with some semi-complicated stuff meant for web developers. Find the Network tab along the top and click on it. If it's not visible as soon as you open the dev tools, you may need to scroll the tabs with a button that looks like 》 or similar, or you could click and drag the separator to increase the size of the entire sidebar.
The network tab will populate with every web request that your current tab makes. So now navigate to https://grimacesbirthday.com/ (or hit the reload button if you're already there) and watch the list fill up. In that list will be your ROM, looking something like the attached image. The ROM is just over 1 MB, probably the largest download you'll see in the list. You should be able to right click on that request and copy the URL, open it in a new tab, etc. to initiate a download of the file to your PC.
The address has changed between releases, so it may not be exactly what I showed in my screenshot.
Definitely. As a fellow kbean, I was enjoying my time in our funny little walled garden, but the community suddenly expanding ten-fold overnight was pretty spectacular.