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We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable? (kbin.social)

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Hello, I am the founder of /r/RimWorldporn. We would like to move away from Reddit and are looking for a good alternative. We are kind of like /r/earthporn, so we require hosting of large images. We've been around for about 4 1/2 years and have accumulated roughly 30GB of images. The main advantage of Reddit is that it hosts relatively high quality images, for free. Would kbin be a suitable platform for this? We could host our own instance, maybe even centralize image storing on it.

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[–] ivy@fedi196.gay 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hey, I'm @ivy and I'm the admin on fedi196.gay
I would totally be open to you using my instance if you would like. Kbin gives you the option to either upload an image or link to a preexisting image on the internet. depending on how they're stored on your end, if you already have it on a server you could link to it. if not my instance has 80gb of storage and I'm going to be setting up object storage with storj as soon as it's possible so I could easily handle a good deal of content. I've done my best to make this server as cost effective and reliable as possible so it should be pretty safe on here. if you want to follow up, please get in touch and we can get things sorted out

[–] slavethewhales@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi there. Did you set up your instance simply following the guide on kbin.pub? I just bought a domain/VPS but I haven’t had much luck following the guide yet. Did you run into anything you had to do that wasn’t in the documentation? I’ve been looking for a walkthrough video even, but only found one for setting up a Lemmy instance.

[–] philip@kbin.chat 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not @ivy, but I have setup a kbin instance using the "Install with docker" guide.
I ran into the following issues:

Including a symbol in the passwords in .env file. You either have to encode/escape the symbols or not use them. I ended up using passwords without symbols.
Before running yarn install and yarn build, I had to isssue composer commands as described here
File permissions issues. The docker compose up command failed, if everything in the kbin directory didn't belong to the kbin user.

Also if you want to use docker, then there should be a new setup soon(See here)

[–] slavethewhales@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info and the links. I'm not in a particular rush so I'm just viewing this as a learning experience. When it finally works it'll be a great feeling :D

[–] ivy@fedi196.gay 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wound up following most of the admin guide for bare metal but it didn't wind up working so I had to get a ton of help in the matrix room for the project. documentation is really scarce at the moment but I'm trying to make sense of it all and put some better documentation together

kbin is still basically undocumented since it's so young so there is still a lot of work to be done on that front

[–] slavethewhales@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the reply. I guess I picked a great project for my first go at this haha. Do you have a quick link to the matrix room so I can check it out? A video guide would be great for those like me, if you're up to it. I'm sure it would be very helpful once people realize they can own their own home here.

Edit: I found the matrix room and ended up getting it going for the most part! Still tweaking the .env settings and trying to get mail/registrations to work though