during the flood of users, kbin put up Cloudflare just to slow everything down for a bit until it calmed down, and that created some issues with Federation outside of kbin. Now that it's gone though, it should all be back to normal, so you should see subs from Lemmy and other Fediverse software update normally now.
Oh I absolutely love the BSG reference with choosing the name Starbuck, but if branding with the coffee is an issue, I think Artemis or even KBucks would work tbh