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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

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[–] minnieo@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Eggyhead@kbin.social 54 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

I would welcome them to mod my community with open arms ! I hope we see some of them come over

[–] subignition@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will be an interesting time for sure. I hope it can work out in a way that skilled moderators can be compensated for their efforts. It seems like donation-supported instances for niche communities isn't too unrealistic right now, though that doesn't solve the volunteer labor problem. Cleverer things will probably become possible as the technology improves.

[–] shinnoodles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instance based communities sound really interesting until it comes to the matter of an instance needing to be shut down. I hope the portability factor of Lemmy gets better, because that's an easy way to lose tons of valuable informarion.

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[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

We should recommend people sign up on some of the various kbin instances, listed here: https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

My instance only currently has 8 registered users so I know I can take on some more people to help spread the load. People don’t need to sign up for mine specifically though, we just don’t wanna overload kbin.social

[–] mintyytea@lemmy.studio 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thanks for the list of the kbin instances! Hopefully we can migrate our accounts someday. Joining kbin.social at first has been helpful to me to not have to go through that growing pain of not being able to see many communities/magazines

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah no problem! I think that’s the link we should be passing around to people instead of flooding kbin.social (if we can). I’ve tried to populate my instance with all the top popular communities from other instances (including Lemmy) because I know that lack of content is a turn off for instances other than the “main” ones.

[–] Mintyytea@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think there needs to be an easier way to see communities/magazines across aggregators because I see the lemmy browse sites for communities won't show any kbin magazines, which I think will only hurt the point of decentralizing but being able to access all the content in the fediverse.

I'm not sure if kbin actually suffers the same way, because I'm on kbin.social which I'm guessing just already has all the current lemmy communities added. But if there's a new lemmy community, and no one added it to kbin.social (how would they find out?) then no one will find out if this lemmy community blows up and becomes really popular right?

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's resource usage? I hear kbin is heavy on RAM

[–] lohrun@fediverse.boo 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On average, it looks to be less than 2gb of ram at the moment. CPU and RAM usage obviously will go up as I have more users, but it’s not bad at all at the moment. I’ve been pleasantly surprised tbh. I am also completely prepared to scale the server up if I get more users on my instance.

Edit: just a follow up, looks like I can scale my instance to a maximum two ways,
“cpu optimized” up to 48 vCPU and 96gb of ram
“Memory optimized” up to 32 vCPU and 256gb of ram

I’m a long way off of the max though now, my server is only 2 vCPU and 4gb memory for now

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I'm running a lemmy instance and using about 700mb, up from 500mb before I had any users (though I have maybe a dozen active users lmao)

But I'm not using much CPU at all though. 5% average on a 2core VPS VM. 4 gigs as well. I can scale up a bit and still afford it personally. After that Ill have to ask for donations, and if not enough stop registration.

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[–] Mintyytea@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

okay the only thing is, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to keep making instance names that don't start with kbin.___ because then if kbin/lemmy really do take off, it would be so hard to google search for them. You can't do the site:kbin.* search if those instances with different names make magazines/communities and you can't find them with that google filter

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[–] rmacd@kbin.social 51 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Served 13 years in Reddit Penetentiary, just joined here, hello

[–] BobVersionFour@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We beleive in second chance here so welcome !

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, the question though is if you believe yourself to be rehabilitated and ready to enter civil society

[–] TheGreenGolem@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Civil? Fuck you!

I'm just joking. Are we doing /s here?

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[–] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arrrrrr, there needs be some rock breaking

[–] 567PrimeMover@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You mod 16 subs, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don’t take me cause I can’t go; I owe my soul to the IPO

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[–] lemmy@lemmy.captainapathetic.cfd 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like federation let's this basically be what many want reddit to be, a platform by the userbase, for the userbase.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Exactly. Capitalist platforms will all suffer from enshitification. They will eventually have to make money, and users are products. Their shareholders will eventually force the platforms to extract money from their users.

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[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Divert more power to hull integrity!

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are still coming through!

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[–] LostCause@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Awesome, more users is good!

Kbin is so nice and seems more stable than lemmy. I spent all of yesterday on a lemmy account with a lot of loading errors and all of today on kbin and not a single error! Well done to the devs.

You’ll get a couple but they’re usually super temporary 503s so it just feels like the Reddit of yore

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's excellent to hear! I've been following the progress of KBin closely. The big thing I'm waiting for is mobile apps

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@hariette@tech.lgbt is working on a client that is (currently) called Kmoon.

It might be renamed soon, but I've signed up for the beta and am currently waiting for an Android build 👀

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[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

On the plus side, kbin now has a PWA, and it works pretty well.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is great news! Cheers to everyone who's making Rexit possible.

[–] vkeycaps@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we have a magazine for new words?)

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[–] kadu@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Took them a million years, but finally. Many of them weren't quite happy with the idea of migrating to platforms where they aren't the main moderators anymore.

Though (well, I'm biased) I'd say recommending Lemmy over Kbin at the moment would be better, given the number of fully working instances

[–] JonEFive@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lots of people take issue with the political leanings of the Lemmy developers which may be why it's lower on the list, although I agree that it is more established.

In any case, that's the beauty of the fediverse. Create an account on both, or choose just one and cross-subscribe to communities you like.

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It'll be interesting to see if this changes the playing field for social networks in any significant way.

[–] YellowtoOrange@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Woah. Get those lifeboats filled.

[–] Evehn@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Really happy about this, hope it truly happens. Finally a social in the true meaning of the word.

[–] bliss@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Excellent news!

[–] lavender@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] randomperson@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I find it to be a way better solution than Lemmy for various reasons.

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 7 points 1 year ago

I'd say this is for the best of us.

Even the existing moderators have started to acknowledge that Reddit is no longer a platform for the people, and it was just a way for Spez to make money all along, even saying that the years of content can be marketed and sold.

[–] JanoRis@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, the activity on reddit still seems lower than before the Blackout if you look here, especially for a weekend

[–] millions@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Inb4 +500badillion new users

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