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kbin.social is getting the hug of death right now, consider signing up for another instance (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by artillect@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it's getting.

Luckily, there are a few other kbin instances that you can use right now! kilioa.org and fedia.io have recently popped up over the last few days, and they're still running smoothly during the Reddit blackout. They're also still federating with Lemmy, so you can see posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.ml (federation is currently disabled on kbin.social due to the cloudflare protection).

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[–] oakke1@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's that same thread on kbin.social:

https://kbin.social/m/apexlegends@kilioa.org/t/7981/Welcome-to-Apex-Legends

And yes, there definitely needs to be an easier way to navigate this stuff. I'm sure someone's gonna figure something out eventually.

[–] massacre@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thanks for sharing that info - I signed up for an account on kbin.social just a while ago - are the logins unique & federated? How does the system handle it if another user signs up with my handle on fedia.io for example?

If they are not unique, I'm assuming it prepends my user with something like https://kbin.social/u/massacre to the post or uses @massacre or similar? Thanks for helping everyone as we figure this out.

[–] mfz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The instance name is part of your handle. Think of it like an email address. With a domain part.

[–] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

So just like email, your username is the full @user@domain. In your case your username is @massacre@kbin.social. A user at a different instance with the same name is a different user. Just like massacre@hotmail.com and massacre@gmail.com are different

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You're just about right, at least as I understand it. You are @massacre (at massacre at kbin.social) to the rest of the fediverse. They would be @massacre (at massacre at lemmy.world) or whatever. The UI just obfuscates that a bit.