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Anyone else having trouble with Kbin? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a Reddit refugee trying out all the alternatives I can find to see which sticks. I guess Kbin is part of the same Fediverse as we're in here, but it seems more isolated and people on Reddit are pushing it hard. As a result I've been seeing significantly higher engagement levels there than here, despite it not having a mobile app and a confusing interface.

Today, it will barely load and I can't log in without getting an error. It's so painfully slow, maybe because it has ddos protection enabled, but it's with every page load. I'm finding it too frustrating to use, but somehow more active than what I'm seeing here where the front page of All often has posts with zero comments and only a handful of votes.

How are other refugees managing the Reddit alternatives?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I looked at kbin but didn't like the UI. lemmy = much better

[–] michikade 2 points 1 year ago

I looked at kbin too and wasn’t fond of the interface personally, then I read that when things are running correctly they federate here and since I liked how Lemmy looks and works a lot more I came here. Course come to find out there are issues federating here but that’s okay, everything’s getting hugged hard right now. Hopefully things shake out soon so we can all play together if we choose to.

[–] dingus 2 points 1 year ago

kbin is down for me. Interesting that people are touting it as a better alternative than Lemmy instances when there really aren't very many Kbin instances. It seems kbin.social is overloaded.

[–] medcur 2 points 1 year ago

I was having the same slow issue with kbin this morning. I think they're just overloaded. The blackout is leading to people looking for alternatives so I assume the servers are creaking a little.

[–] metic 1 points 1 year ago

I loads for me, but I constantly get prompted to "verify I am human" on Cloudflare and it logs out after a few minutes of inactivity.