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Admin of my instance seems to have gone inactive, looking to migrate to a small instance with an active admin (kbin.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by Emotional_Series7814@kbin.cafe to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I’d like to help out with decentralization, with users not all gathering in one place, so I don’t want to go to kbin.social or fedia.io. I did look at fedidb.org and the list of instances there, but it doesn’t tell me if the admin is active. I could just visit every instance listed there and check the admin’s profile for activity, but I figure putting this message out and seeing who replies is a pretty good test of which kbin instances have an active admin that takes me less time.

EDIT: Also saw this from Ernest, he’s eventually going to make sure abandoned instances have admins, so that’s good news.

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[–] MHLoppy2@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Based on what I've heard from kbin instance admins (especially jerry, the owner of fedia.io, where I usually post from when not dealing with errors), it's not an easy thing to keep running in its current state. I imagine if you instance hop sub-100 user kbin instances many of them will end up shutting down or having inactive owners.

For example, feddit.online is kbin instance #6 by user count (yet it's still <100!) and has announced they're shutting down in a couple of months: https://feddit.online/m/feddit/t/66403/SERVER-GOING-AWAY-ON-NOV-26th

To have a stable instance experience without going with a large instance you might have better luck with another AP platform as your home base, whether Lemmy or something else entirely.