kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I will be thrilled if we end up with some experienced Reddit mods running communities or instances of their own.

    • subignition@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It will be an interesting time for sure. I hope it can work out in a way that skilled moderators can be compensated for their efforts. It seems like donation-supported instances for niche communities isn’t too unrealistic right now, though that doesn’t solve the volunteer labor problem. Cleverer things will probably become possible as the technology improves.

  • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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    1 year ago

    We should recommend people sign up on some of the various kbin instances, listed here: https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

    My instance only currently has 8 registered users so I know I can take on some more people to help spread the load. People don’t need to sign up for mine specifically though, we just don’t wanna overload kbin.social

      • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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        1 year ago

        On average, it looks to be less than 2gb of ram at the moment. CPU and RAM usage obviously will go up as I have more users, but it’s not bad at all at the moment. I’ve been pleasantly surprised tbh. I am also completely prepared to scale the server up if I get more users on my instance.

        Edit: just a follow up, looks like I can scale my instance to a maximum two ways,
        “cpu optimized” up to 48 vCPU and 96gb of ram
        “Memory optimized” up to 32 vCPU and 256gb of ram

        I’m a long way off of the max though now, my server is only 2 vCPU and 4gb memory for now

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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          1 year ago

          I’m running a lemmy instance and using about 700mb, up from 500mb before I had any users (though I have maybe a dozen active users lmao)

          But I’m not using much CPU at all though. 5% average on a 2core VPS VM. 4 gigs as well. I can scale up a bit and still afford it personally. After that Ill have to ask for donations, and if not enough stop registration.

          • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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            1 year ago

            The scaling is from my cloud provider, hopefully I won’t have to scale up to the max (looks like it’d be like $1300/mo)

            700mb of ram isn’t bad at all. Yeah I’m using like 30% cpu on a 2 core right now. Kbin definitely uses more resources than lemmy but I think it has a lot more going on in the tech stack

              • lohrun@fediverse.boo
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                1 year ago

                Yeah if my instance got busy enough that would be something to definitely consider. I’m using DigitalOcean over something like AWS as well. I wouldn’t want to run it out of my home off of my own network though which is why VPS providers are nice (plus I have all my DNS rules set up through it)