Hey Reddit refugees! You may have noticed that kbin.social is taking forever to load because of all of the traffic it’s getting.

Luckily, there are a few other kbin instances that you can use right now! kilioa.org and fedia.io have recently popped up over the last few days, and they’re still running smoothly during the Reddit blackout. They’re also still federating with Lemmy, so you can see posts from beehaw.org and lemmy.ml (federation is currently disabled on kbin.social due to the cloudflare protection).

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing that info - I signed up for an account on kbin.social just a while ago - are the logins unique & federated? How does the system handle it if another user signs up with my handle on fedia.io for example?

      If they are not unique, I’m assuming it prepends my user with something like https://kbin.social/u/massacre to the post or uses @massacre or similar? Thanks for helping everyone as we figure this out.

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        1 year ago

        The instance name is part of your handle. Think of it like an email address. With a domain part.

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        1 year ago

        You’re just about right, at least as I understand it. You are @massacre (at massacre at kbin.social) to the rest of the fediverse. They would be @massacre (at massacre at lemmy.world) or whatever. The UI just obfuscates that a bit.