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Now when I go to the Hot page it’s 12 hours out of date.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

    • s0ckpuppet@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Yep I decided to switch accounts to this username from another one I had been using that is kinda attached to my freelance business. I felt like it wasn’t the wisest move to get into occasional debates with strangers like that. Some people just lose their mind if you disagree with them online.

      So I requested deletion close to a month ago and it still hasn’t gone through. Will it ever? Who knows