Submitted 3 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to fediverse@lemmy.world
From this post (sopuli.xyz/post/15865566) on !AskMbin@fedia.io
It’s very likely related, but we also figured out that both of debounced’s (the admin of kbin.run) accounts on GitHub and Matrix were deleted last night. So there is a possibility that kbin.run is no more.
Ok. I have to ask: how many instances will have to go down before the majority of you drop the “you can always hop around to the next one” mentality and start thinking about ways to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
Somebody should consider building a fork that works of bluesky’s content addressing scheme, that way communities can effectively be re-homed in full even if the server dies
Is there a solution to make the whole ecosystem mature and professional?
Certainly having everyone on one instance isn’t the way to go.
We could have a constellation of smaller service providers, like we do for email nowadays. Everyone talks about Gmail+Outlook having 80% of the market, but we all forget that the tail still exists and that is made of hundreds of independent companies which make a healthy living charging $20-$50/year.
to make the whole ecosystem more mature and professional?
Feel free to hire the devs?
You can and should fund the developers as much as possible , but I am talking about paying for the work done by the instance admins and moderators.
Why do Kbin admins keep disappearing under weird circumstances? Is Kbin made with black voodoo magic? Do cenobites come out of the server box and take them to hell?
It’s because coding in PHP makes you want to leave for a tropical beach and never come back to the nightmare.
Yeah that’s really really accurate.
Kbin no run
Kbin do(n)t run
Kbin consumes another admin :/
Oh, I created an account there two days ago.
So I have backup accounts on fedia.io and piefed.social
But when I left spez's site for the fediverse, I recreated some lost content (while it was still fresh in my head) and added a bunch of new content to kbin.social - AFAIK with ernest MIA and no way to reach an actual admin of kbin.social my new content is now gone.
That was a very discouraging experience. Since then I decided I wouldn't return until I could set up my own single-user instance - as owning and controlling my own instance largely means I always have a copy of my content, no matter what happens elsewhere.
I wish piefed.social (which only fully opened this year in Jan IIRC) had been around earlier. The lead developer of piefed is really helpful and responsive, and created a lot of documentation on how to run your own instance of pyfedi - including how to set up your own at-home instance via something like ngrok. Basically you get a HOWTO guide on how to do this. Compare with the complexity of getting a Kbin instance up and running in the early days...
Piefed is great indeed
What is the name knbin?
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Well I started on kbin.social, migrated to kbin.run…
Are there any other servers anyone would like me to ruin?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How do you feel about stomaching 4chan for a few weeks?
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Not even for the betterment of humanity would I dare venture into such places…
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 months ago
lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, truthsocial.com, x.com, etc
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You’re like a nijū hibakusha, but less serious.
Zanathos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
After I kbin.socials constant issues I moved to Leemy.world and like it a lot better. I miss magazines as opposed to communities, but it’s pot-ato po-tato and there don’t seem to be any outages.
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 months ago
I actually miss the microblog integration on vanilla kbin, but I don’t think we’ll ever get that back.
I might just finally give up and settle on lemmy. There are a lot of really good apps for it these days.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Where you also on vlemmy.net and iusearch.fyi?