Academia

Haha, I like the suggestion of a connection to Polish. kbin and kbin.social were created by a Polish dev, after all, and that was my introduction into the fediverse.

Basically my instance started out as an experiment - I was trying to set up a single-user instance for free. I was successful (well, more or less - my always-on internet connection is paid as a perk by my employer, and I set it up on an old laptop that I had lying around).

One of the consequences though of going fully free is that I don't get much choice in the name of my instance. (It's actually a hash of the SSH key I use to authenticate into the service provider at srv.us I believe.) Likewise, my username is derived as a hash of my posts from spez's website before I moved on to kbin.social