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From this post (https://sopuli.xyz/post/15865566) on [email protected]

It’s very likely related, but we also figured out that both of debounced’s (the admin of kbin.run) accounts on GitHub and Matrix were deleted last night. So there is a possibility that kbin.run is no more.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So I have backup accounts on fedia.io and piefed.social

But when I left spez's site for the fediverse, I recreated some lost content (while it was still fresh in my head) and added a bunch of new content to kbin.social - AFAIK with ernest MIA and no way to reach an actual admin of kbin.social my new content is now gone.

That was a very discouraging experience. Since then I decided I wouldn't return until I could set up my own single-user instance - as owning and controlling my own instance largely means I always have a copy of my content, no matter what happens elsewhere.

I wish piefed.social (which only fully opened this year in Jan IIRC) had been around earlier. The lead developer of piefed is really helpful and responsive, and created a lot of documentation on how to run your own instance of pyfedi - including how to set up your own at-home instance via something like ngrok. Basically you get a HOWTO guide on how to do this. Compare with the complexity of getting a Kbin instance up and running in the early days...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Piefed is great indeed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

just wanted to post on the incredibly low chance debounced ever sees this that I hope he's ok and wish him well with whatever happened

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do Kbin admins keep disappearing under weird circumstances? Is Kbin made with black voodoo magic? Do cenobites come out of the server box and take them to hell?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's because coding in PHP makes you want to leave for a tropical beach and never come back to the nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's really really accurate.

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