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We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheVillageGuy@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Update: we're live @rimworldporn

Hello, I am the founder of /r/RimWorldporn. We would like to move away from Reddit and are looking for a good alternative. We are kind of like /r/earthporn, so we require hosting of large images. We've been around for about 4 1/2 years and have accumulated roughly 30GB of images. The main advantage of Reddit is that it hosts relatively high quality images, for free. Would kbin be a suitable platform for this? We could host our own instance, maybe even centralize image storing on it.

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[–] noodlejetski@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

maybe use a third party image hosting service instead (like vgy.me), and link to those in your posts? that used to be the norm on reddit for years before they've introduced image upload.

[–] TheVillageGuy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, reddit used imgur. Unfortunately they re-compress too aggressively and have a maximum res (iirc) so we prefer not to use them. We also want to keep it as simple as possible for RimWorld colonists, so if we can bypass a hosting platform that would be great

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

It would be hard to find instances that will allow such huge image files unless you host it yourself. Do consider hosting images on vgy.me, which allows 20 MB per image, and then linking it to here to kbin, if you don't want to host an instance.