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.
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.
hey, I’m @ivy and I’m the admin on fedi196.gay
I would totally be open to you using my instance if you would like. Kbin gives you the option to either upload an image or link to a preexisting image on the internet. depending on how they’re stored on your end, if you already have it on a server you could link to it. if not my instance has 80gb of storage and I’m going to be setting up object storage with storj as soon as it’s possible so I could easily handle a good deal of content. I’ve done my best to make this server as cost effective and reliable as possible so it should be pretty safe on here. if you want to follow up, please get in touch and we can get things sorted outHi there. Did you set up your instance simply following the guide on kbin.pub? I just bought a domain/VPS but I haven’t had much luck following the guide yet. Did you run into anything you had to do that wasn’t in the documentation? I’ve been looking for a walkthrough video even, but only found one for setting up a Lemmy instance.
I wound up following most of the admin guide for bare metal but it didn’t wind up working so I had to get a ton of help in the matrix room for the project. documentation is really scarce at the moment but I’m trying to make sense of it all and put some better documentation together
kbin is still basically undocumented since it’s so young so there is still a lot of work to be done on that front
Thanks for the reply. I guess I picked a great project for my first go at this haha. Do you have a quick link to the matrix room so I can check it out? A video guide would be great for those like me, if you’re up to it. I’m sure it would be very helpful once people realize they can own their own home here.
Edit: I found the matrix room and ended up getting it going for the most part! Still tweaking the .env settings and trying to get mail/registrations to work though
I’m not @ivy, but I have setup a kbin instance using the “Install with docker” guide.
I ran into the following issues:- Including a symbol in the passwords in .env file. You either have to encode/escape the symbols or not use them. I ended up using passwords without symbols.
- Before running yarn install and yarn build, I had to isssue composer commands as described here
- File permissions issues. The docker compose up command failed, if everything in the kbin directory didn’t belong to the kbin user.
Also if you want to use docker, then there should be a new setup soon(See here)
Thanks for the info and the links. I’m not in a particular rush so I’m just viewing this as a learning experience. When it finally works it’ll be a great feeling :D
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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.
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.
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!
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Either Kbin or Lemmy would work fine.
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.
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How can I join the beta?
As long as I don’t have to eat without a table.
keep an eye on your organs there
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If you are asking if the kbin.social instance/server can handle your existing content and future content, you will have to talk to the admin.
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If you are asking if the Kbin software can handle your content, sure, the software is only a software. Your data will rely on the capabilities of your hosting provider.
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If you are asking if there are Kbin instances that can handle your content, you will have to contact them individually and find a way to struck some deal.
You can check this list of the different servers/instances using the Kbin software –> https://fedidb.org/software/Kbin
Or, you can host it on your own: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core
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So, trying to understand, what would happen if a user from another instance, that doesn’t support, wants to look at mine, will they be redirected?
By support, do you mean an instance not having the storage space to host your images? The content itself is only hosted on the instance you upload it to, so even if someone from a different instance that doesn’t have the space to store your content visits your magazine, they’ll still see everything just fine.
They would be able to see, so long as your instance remains federated with theirs. Donations are volunteer only.
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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
@ernest can you spare 30Gb for these guys? @TheVillageGuy S3 is working I think?
@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!
Yes finally some rimworld content on fediverse!
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.
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.
