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If you are asking if the kbin.social instance/server can handle your existing content and future content, you will have to talk to the admin.
If you are asking if the Kbin software can handle your content, sure, the software is only a software. Your data will rely on the capabilities of your hosting provider.
If you are asking if there are Kbin instances that can handle your content, you will have to contact them individually and find a way to struck some deal.
You can check this list of the different servers/instances using the Kbin software --> https://fedidb.org/software/Kbin
Or, you can host it on your own: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
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So, trying to understand, what would happen if a user from another instance, that doesn't support, wants to look at mine, will they be redirected?
They would be able to see, so long as your instance remains federated with theirs. Donations are volunteer only.
Sort of. When content is posted on instance A and someone is browsing on federated instance B, they'll see the content from both A and B "mixed together" in their feed. They'll be able to view it on instance A as if it was local content and post responses to comments and so forth normally. Someone over on instance B would then see their responses normally as well.
This very thread is an example of this. The person you're responding to, @youronlyone, is viewing this thread on the readit.buzz instance and posted his response over there. You saw his response on kbin.social and responded to it, and presumably he can now see your response to him over on readit.buzz. In theory this should all be seamless.
In practice, the programs we're using here are pretty new and are being hit with load they've never experienced before so there's occasionally glitches. But that's the goal, anyway, and I see no reason why it won't be workable.
The main issue seems to be your photo storage requirements. In terms of federation, your posts should appear normally for whatever platform you're using to users who are on other instances so long as the instances don't become defederated for some reason (a rarity in most cases unless an instance has a large number of spammers or bad users).
To answer what I think you're asking, yes, users on other instances would see the post and would be linked to the images stored on your "home" instance in most cases.
By support, do you mean an instance not having the storage space to host your images? The content itself is only hosted on the instance you upload it to, so even if someone from a different instance that doesn't have the space to store your content visits your magazine, they'll still see everything just fine.
They'll be able to look at it from their own instance, without the need to switch over to yours. They can also comment from their own instance. I for example am replying to you from https://forum.fail, whereas you seem to come from the https://kbin.social server/instance
(federation can be a bit wonky, but generally this is true.)