They're welcome to it. I haven't deleted my reddit account yet, but I did kill the tab in my browser. I just don't care anymore.
SFaulken
joined 2 years ago
Correct. That's sort of the whole idea behind "The Fediverse" Lots of smaller instances of a thing talking to each other, instead of one big monolithic thing.
The only reason I haven't gotten an instance spun up yet, is because I'm old, and set in my ways, and don't really understand how to configure and get kbin running with Docker. As soon as somebody that's better at this than I am gets some sort of "Docker for dummies wanting to setup kbin" up, I'll spin it up, I've already got a nice beefy VPS sitting there with Mastodon/Matrix/Nextcloud running on it, and plenty of resources left.
The performance issues will sort themselves out. The timing is just bad for kbin.social
But it's not a performance issue, so much as it is people learning how the Fediverse works. At it's best, there shouldn't be any megaservers where everybody is signed up. There should be many smaller servers, that are interacting with each other, via federation. It's a little different way of looking at things.
For my part, I've only participated in the whole reddit thing under protest. I'm involved in some open source projects, and I felt it necessary to get involved there, just to fight the FUD.
I never liked it. Even before this whole API hullabaloo.
I've got my popcorn, and I'll be happy to watch reddit die in a fire. (One can only hope.)
I've got no issue kicking Ernest a fiver (and in fact I did), but part of the issue is, we shouldn't be advocating for kbin.social or any of their other instances becoming the "Big Kahuna" That defeats half the purpose of being a federated protocol in the first place. Get a VPS of your own, spin up an instance, invite your friends and family, and spread the load. If you poke around, you can get a suitable VPS that can support a small number of users quite inexpensively.
I don't have mine up and running yet, but it's in the works, as soon as I muddle through how.
You misunderstand what kbin is, if you think there's A server that has to cover operating costs. kbin isn't a site, it's just server software, it's meant to be run in many many places, and those individual servers talk to each other.