To directly access the thread while bypassing the official Reddit you can also use the Teddit interface.

https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/ModCoord/comments/14cr2is/alternative\_forms\_of\_protest\_in\_light\_of\_admin/

If you look at the profiles of the most vocal protest supporters you'll see that many of them have large amounts of karma and accounts with years of history. I'd wager that many of those power users got up and left.

Hah I can't unsee it now after you pointed it out. It's very obvious if you rotate the image.

We're all with you!

Since we're federated with Mastodon it's worth noting that we can actually see and comment on his original post right in Kbin!

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/620490/I-wrote-a-short-goodbye-post-on-Reddit-as-we

Yep. I found it easy to learn how everything worked with a couple searches and the thing that took the most time was looking through the most popular instances and finding one I liked. On the other hand if you've simply used the official Reddit app all your life it'll be hard to switch over.

Well we are one of the largest instances out there with open signups...

The problem with Rimworld shots of the entire base is that they're simply huge, especially if you share them in lossless PNG. I remember trying to archive one of my old Rimworld posts here on Kbin and the site straight up refused to accept my image. Even Imgur did not work until I reencoded it as a JPG. Reddit interestingly enough allowed me to host the original large PNG.

Honestly if you want to move your sub over to Kbin just initially have your users use a third party service like Imgur/Imgchest/ImgBB/etc. to get things started. I wouldn't recommend self-hosting initially unless you already have experience deploying and managing similar services.

A logo contest for the userbase might be a good idea. I've been thinking of a mascot as well (the folder isn't particularly endearing) and might post something up. Lemmy's lemming and Mastodon's elephant definitely attract attention and makes the site recognisable.

It also would be a good idea to have an official name for what we call ourselves - Kbinauts? Kbinners?

UPDATE: Here's what I think a Kbeanaut looks like!

I'm really going to miss /r/writingprompts, I've written a lot of stuff for them over the years. Sadly I don't see a replacement popping up here yet and their mods also didn't bother with the blackout protest.

I've blocked their entire domain and I now I don't see their NSFW posts anymore.

Go to https://kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com (basically `/d/<domain you want to block>') and press the block icon on the sidebar. Yes you'll have to briefly look at their front page before you can block their content.

Nice! Personally I think a stroked edge (with the border being the same color as the beak) and a black eye helps in making the logo pop when scaled down amidst a sea of phone app icons.

There also is the empty https://kbin.social/m/WritingPrompts. On Beehaw's writing some people have posted prompts and it's the first place here where I've actually seen someone reply to a prompt. It's not a dedicated writing prompt space though.

In general it looks like the migration is mostly spearheaded by tech rather than art, which I sort of expect. I mean the original /r/writingprompts didn't even discuss or acknowledge the protest at all.

If the community server makes enough money, the mods could definitely be paid for their time. Reddit's rules don't apply on the Fediverse :)

On the corporate side this also leads to interesting options as well. For example imagine if Microsoft sets up an official instance run by their employees for Windows support and questions. Everyone could participate easily on the instance using their Fediverse accounts and Microsoft pays for the server/moderators.

That pricing is crazy for 32vCPU and 256GB RAM. You could buy a used bare-metal server with these specs for that.

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I run a non-federated Matrix server for my family with synapse, it's behind nginx and the setup is pretty straightforward if you know what you're doing. It does chat, voice, and video with screenshare nicely, though I don't know now well it scales to a large group.

I mean there are some electric cars with a "creep" feature to mimic the IC engine, where the vehicle will slowly move forwards in first with nothing depressed as it's being driven by the idling engine. This manual mode sounds over the top though.

I mean the Lemmy mascot is literally a lemming. Guess that's similar to calling Redditors Snoos.

The boost also apparently sends the post out to your subscribers, whereas the upvote does not.

I'm seeing this a lot in the stickies for reopened subs discussing whether they want to continue the blackout. Last week they all wanted to protest, this week they don't want it anymore and prefer the sub to stay up. It's likely a different subset of people commenting.

Yep this is the answer. I have the filter turned on and it most definitely doesn't work since all those posts are untagged.

Kbeanauts!

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AFAIK Kbin runs on a single server currently. That's why they're looking at scaling it out to multiple machines.

@tchambers it might be a good idea to have a sticky thread for something like this as I see these posts very often.

I just successfully uploaded one to your sub; you have to comp it aggressively to get it to work (<5MB seems to be fine). Still it's full resolution and the artifacts aren't that bad.

@J23 doesn't need an invite. He can just sign up directly on https://kbin.social.

Great! There likely will be a new influx of users at the end of the month when the API finally goes down.

Just curious but what hardware specs is Kbin currently running on (the 100E machine)? In the past Ernest used a 64GB/16vCPU dedicated VM and he had lots of trouble with performance.

I would definitely defederate if they advertise all over the place, like how I would ban them from my subreddit if they go and spam it. But if their staff stay on their own server (again think of it like being an official subreddit) to run an official forum I would be happy to federate with them so I can ask for technical support etc.

Until the API goes down you can lurk using Teddit. This is an ad-free Reddit frontend/alternate interface.

https://teddit.net
https://teddit.adminforge.de/

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TIFF is a classic storage format, but PNG is common for web images and isn't going away either. DNG is for RAW sensor output from professional cameras and is not used for edited and published images. However if you're archiving your photo collection or something than keep the DNGs!

The easiest way would be to just bridge the ISP router if it supports that feature. To connect back to the ISP router's webui you can setup outbound NAT on your second router (generally only available on enterprise gear). Don't double NAT unless there's no other option.

If you can bridge, the sky's the limit in terms of what gear you can have on the backend. My bridged modem is directly connected to a L3 switch which links to my Proxmox cluster, and my Opnsense router exists virtually in the cluster and can be migrated freely between the machines.

It's sad, but you just have to bite the bullet and do it. I miss the old communities but I hope we'll find something new here on Kbin.

9 year creator as well, and I was legitimately sad when I pressed that delete account button. Before running the automated removal scripts I read through each one of my posts and comments and that brought back a lot of interesting memories of a different younger me. I archived what I could and got rid of the rest.

Yes I use third party apps but it's the whole response from /u/spez and Reddit that really made me call it quits. They're clearly catering for the Tiktok generation and not users who genuinely want to post original content and build good communities.

Yeah personally I'm not a fan and I would rather follow a well-written guide than spend even more time auditing such a script (which would be even more difficult if you're not experienced with Proxmox). For maintenance's sake it's also risky getting your service set up like this as you don't know how the script set things up and it's harder to fix things if they go wrong.

I virtualize my NAS because it's small (only several TB) and therefore it can be backed up like any other VM with PBS or dumped as a qcow image. A full restoration is extremely easy because I can simply have another node pull the backup from PBS. Also I can migrate the entire NAS to another node so it stays up when I have downtime.

Homelabbing is an amazing hobby if you're into this stuff, and you can go as far down the rabbit hole as you like :)

My lab also supports my coding endeavors since I can deploy VMs, run a local Git server, and so forth. Most of my development is done in a SPICE VDI on Proxmox.

In the past I normally used Pushshift to search Reddit due to how poor the search engine was. I think it was only until very recently when they finally added comment searching.