Hi all, so it has been a couple weeks since the initial launch of kbin.run and I’m curious to hear what people’s opinions are and how they like the overall experience here vs. other kbin instances. Generally speaking, I think kbin’s stability has greatly improved since launch as the first turn on was a very haphazard attempt at getting an instance going using very limited documentation to configure all the interconnected services. There are still a couple of hacks in place to keep federation working smoothly, but I do anticipate official code changes in the near future will greatly improve the overall kbin experience.

I honestly don’t know how many people actively utilize kbin.run, but I do see we have 56 registered users (2 pending deletion) as of posting this thread. The primary server that runs the site is hardly breaking a sweat, so tell your friends to join us if they’re looking for a lightly loaded instance.

Also, if you’re searching for a community that seems to be missing in the fediverse, feel free to create a magazine to support it here. I made a few that I’m interested to see gain some momentum, but there’s nothing stopping anyone else from doing the same.

Thanks as always and enjoy!

EDIT: I’ve added the monthly cost breakdown for kbin.run to the FAQ page.

  • Pat@kbin.run
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    1 year ago

    Hey there. Joined up a couple days ago. I decided to migrate here from fedia.io, as they’ve been having a lot of error 500s and have a big issue with duplicate posts and comments. Figured I’d do what I can to reduce load on their server and find another instance and ended up deciding to try out this one.

    Been enjoying my time so far. Stable and zippy experience. One thing I’ve noticed, although not a major issue, is that the microblog feed doesn’t seem to show many posts. Compared to the feeds on kbin.social or fedia.io as examples, sorting by newest, they will show posts from a few seconds ago and many recent things, but here there’s multiple minutes between each post I see when sorting by newest. Is that because this is a smaller server, or is that intentional?

    And just a general question, do you plan on keeping this instance running in the long term? So far the server seems pretty good and it would be nice to see it grow.