We want to move away from Reddit, is kbin suitable? - RedditMigration - kbin.social
kbin.socialHello, 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...
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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Self-hosting your own instance might be the best way for you. You can surely use kbin for this. But I would recommend you to check out Pixelfed, which is focused on image sharing and is a part of the fediverse. A dedicated pixelfed would meet your needs really well.
This is a good point, but pixelfed is more like Instagram so it depends a lot on the comment & conversation style that users prefer.
Yes I was going to say this, it doesn’t quite suit the needs of RimWorldPorn but does look like a great imgur alternative @LollerCorleone
I would like to note that it did not like me signing up from firefox, then verifying my username using chrome. It would not let me in until I tried signing in from chrome and then verifying again. I recommend passing this on to the devs as this will likely be too complicated for a lot of users.
@TheVillageGuy
Listen to this guy!
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I’m a big fan of RimWorld and I’m very impressed with kbin so far. It’s already improved a lot since 4-5 days ago. I say at least give it a shot.
Wish I knew about the rimworld subreddit before, Would have loved to see some big bases
Just don’t ask who the chairs and hats are made of.
Help safeguard them!
@tchambers this question is for everyone, I am tagging the owner as it may concern you as well. I have a few questions.
First of all, this is looking great and I can imagine this platform is under a lot of stress due to the mass migration form Reddit. Keep up the good work!
-Will it be possible to set the add type to photo only for /m/RimWorldPorn
-What is the maximum allowed filesize/resolution?
-I have almost 1000 renders on /r/reddit. Can those all be posted on /m/RimWorldPorn? (I have them stored locally)
-Less important: would it be possible to use square thumbnails?
thank you!
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.
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
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.
@ernest can you spare 30Gb for these guys? @TheVillageGuy S3 is working I think?
Sorry, what does S3 mean?
As long as I don’t have to eat without a table.
keep an eye on your organs there
30GB isn’t that much that data, so you could probably host it on a kbin or Lemmy instance. It will however cost money, where as Reddit does it for no fee. So, your community would have to chip in to host the VPS/Dedictated server to host your community with. The other way is to join another instance that has enough of an interest and capacity to host it for you, like kbin.social but it will also mean you give up the control of hosting and the rules that apply. You could also look for image hosters that allow for nsfw and have a stable reputation, might be better than trusting an instance to work out with your images.
Not sure if you made the nsfw reference because you thought of the other “rim world” or not but I found it funny.
It’s a happy space colony simulator. It just happens that yayo, organs, and child labor is profitable.
I think they misunderstood the “porn” in the sub name.
Or that :D
I am trying to upload images to /m/RimWorldPorn but it seems to fail on large images, giving either 503 errors or reloading the post image page.
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Thank you, now we’re getting somewhere!
Self-hosting will give you the most control, and 30GB really isn’t all that much data in the grand scheme of things. I haven’t done much research into it yet, but I’ve also seen PixelFed listed as an option for image sharing on the fediverse.
Pushing that much data out to hundreds of other instances might be a pain point though.
I think that one thing that is worth considering is whether the plans you have are future proof. The Fediverse and open source model means that at least the discussions can be easily preserved.
Open sourcing also means that the community can more easily design scripts to archive information.
The image hosting is a separate issue, but again you should have a view towards the future and the possible preservation.
It’s the same issue with individuals who use Google or Apple for cloud storage of their images. At some point the convenience needs to be considered in light of the lack of power for preservation.
Good point. That’s one of the reasons why I came here, we don’t want to be dependent on a commercial platform. I have safeguarded all the current renders, but all the comments / upvotes will be gone.
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If somebody could help me set it up that would be great, I am having trouble uploading to /m/RimWorldPorn
I think it’s a visual bug. I’m having trouble seeing new comments on my own posts
The queue is slowly unload. This should occur much less frequently.
Hello.
I host kbin.chat(Kbin instance) and endlesstalk.org(lemmy instance), where you would be welcome, if you wanted to.
The lemmy instance have a lot more storage, when I move the picture storage to correct server, but I will probably also move the kbin instance to a new setup, where there would also be more storage space.
Maybe not the place to ask. But you seem knowledgeable. Is kbin a Lemmy instance or a different platform that can federated? I could Google of course, but I like talking to humans.
kbin is another platform federated with lemmy and other platform from the fediverse. not the same project than lemmy.
kbin.pub
join-lemmy.org
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Reddit has an upload limit of 20MB, so that’s our standard. Reddit does decompress, sometimes, it’s hard to put a finger on how and when, but usually the endresult is somewhere ~8MB. So if we can get 20MB non-recompressed images, we’d be well pleased.
They really are simply enormous. It’s like 5.5mb per image if I recall.
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