Admin of my instance seems to have gone inactive, looking to migrate to a small instance with an active admin

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. Seems “I will also address abandoned instances” was worded poorly/a mistake, and what he means is adding mods to abandoned magazines.

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melroy, (edited )
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

You can't assign admins on abandoned instances. You can only assign admins or moderators on abandoned magazines...

If you don't wish to use kbin.social try my instance: https://kbin.melroy.org. Disclaimer: I'm part of the kbin core development team.

Emotional_Series7814,

Thanks for the correction! In that case, I’ll probably hop on to yours or kbin.run.

Not sure why you being a member of the kbin core development team is something worth a disclaimer, but thanks for the work you do. I definitely recognized your name—I often check out the codeberg even if I don’t really do anything with it.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Thanks for noticing my work and contributions. Currently all developers and contributors are all volunteers.

Emotional_Series7814, (edited )

Tried to sign up, didn’t realize I had to give you a real email so I could verify myself. I’m always very wary of giving out my true email, because I’m scared of emails leaking and then using the email to tie my account here to other accounts I have that use the same email.

I also can’t sign up again with the same account name. Can anything be done on your end or do I just have to give up and try again with a new username?

Also, I was going to try again with a throwaway email address. Is that going to be autorejected internally, so I get stuck in the same situation of locking myself out of a username because the account is created even if it’s unverified and thus unusable?

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

No worries. Since we now talk.. I activate your account manually.. Just be-aware that you can't use a password reset now.

Emotional_Series7814,

Hey, I cannot access kbin.melroy.org or mbin.melroy.org anymore. I have the same username as the one I have here. Both links redirect me to this:

Welcome to nginx!

If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.

For online documentation and support please refer to nginx.org.
Commercial support is available at nginx.com.

Thank you for using nginx.

melroy,
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org avatar

That is kinda strange. Here it works ... Can you try again now?

Emotional_Series7814,

It works now again!

MHLoppy2,
@MHLoppy2@aussie.zone avatar

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: feddit.online/m/…/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.

e569668,
@e569668@fedia.io avatar

he’s eventually going to make sure abandoned instances have admins

I think he meant magazines on kbin.social in this context. I don't think he has any way to control another instance and change who runs it, besides a kindly worded letter.

I do try to keep track of kbin instances and how up to date they are and their admins, but I can't really advertise in their place. One thing I've kind of been thinking about is it'd be nice if nodeinfo had information next to current user count of like: desired user count, max user count. Otherwise you have no idea what an instance admin is hoping for, whether it's just their personal instance or they're willing to support tens of thousands of users. Without that I don't want to send people to x instance and suddenly the admin being in for a surprise. But I just looked up nodeinfo and it looks like there's plenty of worms in that can about it being too complex already, so maybe I'll avoid opening my mouth about it... for now.

SuperSpaceFan,

Can I ask which instance seemed like it's been abandoned?

McBinary,
McBinary avatar

It could be a secondary account, but I would guess that it's the one they currently belong to? @kbin.cafe

Emotional_Series7814,

kbin.cafe

If you click my profile, you can see both my username and the instance I come from!

SuperSpaceFan,

Just a question. Be civil

Emotional_Series7814,

I thought I had a friendly tone and was being nice. I really did not intend to come off as aggressive. Rereading this I see how it can come off sarcastic and condescending instead of the friendly informational tone I was going for. Sorry.

debounced,
@debounced@kbin.run avatar

you can give kbin.run a try if you'd like. i've been actively keeping it up-to-date with the latest commits to the kbin develop branch, even had my own admin feature pull request accepted (yay!).

kbin.social's federation was disabled early on and a lot of users ended up sticking with the mothership, but kbin.run has been online since "the exodus" 3 months ago. honestly it's been more for me to use as a gateway to the threadiverse/fediverse, but i've kept registrations open while actively purging the occasional spam accounts that make their way through. i sysadmin as a hobby (i like giving myself extra work) and i will scale up the instance if it becomes necessary, but the current bare metal virtualization environment has no problem keeping up with the way it is. i also try to be as transparent as possible with the faq/privacy policy/terms of service pages and posts in the local meta and announcement magazines, but realize it's a US based instance so the laws of the land apply in full force, of course.

Emotional_Series7814,

I just used a throwaway email address to sign up under a different username than my current one, and I sadly still have not received the verification email.

debounced,
@debounced@kbin.run avatar

hmm, that's not good. i checked the mailgun logs and it says the activation email was delivered. can you check your email's spam folder(s)? i manually activated your account so you should be able to login with the password used during signup.

Emotional_Series7814,

It doesn’t have one. Back when I was originally signing up on kbin.social, I had this exact issue with email addresses generated on throwawaymail.com (although the actual email never is address@throwawaymail.com, but address@someurl.com) and it’s happening again. Maybe kbin has some kind of spam filter that throws away these emails?

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