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We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable? (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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Sort of. When content is posted on instance A and someone is browsing on federated instance B, they'll see the content from both A and B "mixed together" in their feed. They'll be able to view it on instance A as if it was local content and post responses to comments and so forth normally. Someone over on instance B would then see their responses normally as well.

This very thread is an example of this. The person you're responding to, @youronlyone, is viewing this thread on the readit.buzz instance and posted his response over there. You saw his response on kbin.social and responded to it, and presumably he can now see your response to him over on readit.buzz. In theory this should all be seamless.

In practice, the programs we're using here are pretty new and are being hit with load they've never experienced before so there's occasionally glitches. But that's the goal, anyway, and I see no reason why it won't be workable.