kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

  • Rockin132@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s not worth staying on at this point anyway. The people that remain are largely assholes. You can basically see the reason that protests don’t work as a macrocosm, because most users now are just bitching that “wahh the blackout only hurts users”. No different to people complaining about climate activists who block highways, or trans right activists who get blamed for “being too loud and annoying”. Protests don’t work when solidarity simply doesn’t exist because most people are just selfish, short sighted idiots, and that’s basically the userbase that remains over on Reddit at this point. I can’t think of a good reason to stay and interact with those kinds of people.

    There are also lots of apologetic mod posts that are like “we reopened because we don’t want to lose all our hard work and be replaced by someone worse, that is not what’s best for our community so we’re reopening”, the ignorance and arrogance of such statements is mind blowing lmao, but trust Reddit mods to not see the wood for the trees.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.

    • subignition@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It will be an interesting time for sure. I hope it can work out in a way that skilled moderators can be compensated for their efforts. It seems like donation-supported instances for niche communities isn’t too unrealistic right now, though that doesn’t solve the volunteer labor problem. Cleverer things will probably become possible as the technology improves.

  • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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    1 year ago

    We should recommend people sign up on some of the various kbin instances, listed here: https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

    My instance only currently has 8 registered users so I know I can take on some more people to help spread the load. People don’t need to sign up for mine specifically though, we just don’t wanna overload kbin.social

      • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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        1 year ago

        On average, it looks to be less than 2gb of ram at the moment. CPU and RAM usage obviously will go up as I have more users, but it’s not bad at all at the moment. I’ve been pleasantly surprised tbh. I am also completely prepared to scale the server up if I get more users on my instance.

        Edit: just a follow up, looks like I can scale my instance to a maximum two ways,
        “cpu optimized” up to 48 vCPU and 96gb of ram
        “Memory optimized” up to 32 vCPU and 256gb of ram

        I’m a long way off of the max though now, my server is only 2 vCPU and 4gb memory for now

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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          1 year ago

          I’m running a lemmy instance and using about 700mb, up from 500mb before I had any users (though I have maybe a dozen active users lmao)

          But I’m not using much CPU at all though. 5% average on a 2core VPS VM. 4 gigs as well. I can scale up a bit and still afford it personally. After that Ill have to ask for donations, and if not enough stop registration.

          • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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            1 year ago

            The scaling is from my cloud provider, hopefully I won’t have to scale up to the max (looks like it’d be like $1300/mo)

            700mb of ram isn’t bad at all. Yeah I’m using like 30% cpu on a 2 core right now. Kbin definitely uses more resources than lemmy but I think it has a lot more going on in the tech stack

              • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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                1 year ago

                Yeah if my instance got busy enough that would be something to definitely consider. I’m using DigitalOcean over something like AWS as well. I wouldn’t want to run it out of my home off of my own network though which is why VPS providers are nice (plus I have all my DNS rules set up through it)