I’ve been here and on Kbin since the Great Reddit Migration of '23. However it seems Kbin has gone the way of the dodo for now. So I’m looking for something similar, any suggestions?
I’ve been here and on Kbin since the Great Reddit Migration of '23. However it seems Kbin has gone the way of the dodo for now. So I’m looking for something similar, any suggestions?
What happened to Kbin?
I’ve been on it like twice but never really got into it.
I think it was originally intended to be a relatively-small project by the creator, who did not expect to have the thing grow quite as much as it did and seemed to have some conflicting time issues.
Last I heard, it hadn’t been formally declared dead, but the main instance wasn’t working.
It’s been down for a while, and my (poor and not entirely informed) understand is that the Admin is on hiatus for an unknown amount of time
That’s pretty much it , and where I started. I went onto sh.itjust.works, but the latency between my device and their server got so bad, I’ve not been there in a few weeks. Currently on kbin earth.
On that note, I don’t know if there’s any website that will have your browser request the root page on various sites and return one with a low average time – probably one out there somewhere.
Fediverse.observer does show the country that one is located in.
If you’re on a Linux system, there’s a utility which is designed to check ping time to a list of servers and find the one with the shortest average network latency called
netselect. That isn’t necessarily the one that will serve up pages the quickest, since it could be that the server software is overloaded, and that it takes it longer to build the page.That’s pretty awesome, thanks for that. I’m almost done with a project and plan to dl and install Linux in the next few months, hopefully.
That is my understanding, and the instability when the dev was first absent for long periods is why I moved to a new instance.
I moved to mbin too, as Ernest was obviously unable to commit the time and resources needed while he has been dealing with life and health related issues. The real bummer is the complete lack of willingness to accept or recognize help when it’s required so the least I could do to help the project was actually to stop using it and remove my usage from the servers he wouldn’t be able to maintain. It’s sad but the fediverse is functioning as intended here, being able to move around is a core feature. I hope he recovers well.