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?

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • Tug@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      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

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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, if it’s overloaded.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
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            3 months ago

            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.

      • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        That is my understanding, and the instability when the dev was first absent for long periods is why I moved to a new instance.

        • astrsk@kbin.run
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          3 months ago

          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 I 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.