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Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move? (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by Seraph@kbin.social to c/kbin@kbin.social

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First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I've been rooting for him this whole time. But it's becoming clear it's all too much for him without the support of a larger team.

Over the last several months there have been multiple posts about the spam problems on this instance, both here and on other instances. We've been fortunate so far they haven't simply defederated us.

Now when I go to the Hot page it's 12 hours out of date.

It's with a heavy heart I looked into a kbin fork mentioned in another thread in this magazine: Mbin.

GitHub: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

Instance list: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin

The largest instance: https://fedia.io/

I'll miss you Kbin. It's been good. Thanks Ernest!

It's not the purpose of this post to support any particular instance. Feel free to mention your own alternatives below.

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[–] speck@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference between mbin and fedia?

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mbin is a software "fork". Meaning they took a snapshot of Kbin code and made their own improvements from then on.

Fedia is an instance, or a federated portal, and one of the ways you can use Mbin code. This is the largest Mbin instance - it has the most users.

[–] speck@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

Great clarification, thank you!