Hi all,
I’m a developer that has an interest in online communities, fediverse software and, at a point in the very recent past, consuming and creating a lot of Reddit content. Discontented with regards to the direction Reddit has taken, I’ve taken it upon myself to start a small, general-purpose instance to give back to the /kbin community and help reduce load. The instance is hosted on a secure, well-equipped dedicated server and should support a large influx of users and communities. I will be regularly administrating it (and may even seek fellow admins); but ideally, administration will be hands-off and moderators will take onus for their magazines.
Come check us out at kbin.cafe. I’ll be happy to answer any lingering questions in this thread.
Please be sure to report any issues by messaging me or emailing us at the address found in the linked post. Currently some avatars for some federated magazines are missing, but this will be resolved soon.
Thanks for reading!
This is from another comment in the thread, copied here since it’s relevant. Regarding missing user avatars - there is an open pull request to replace these with a remote instance’s logo, rather than the browser default for unlocated images: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/334
Additionally, I’ve tweaked some things server-side and it looks like that’s helped caching remote avatars (but there’s still work to be done).