Have you considered moving your instance from #Lemmy to #Kbin?

no. we’ve been on here for a year and a half at this point generally without issue; we’re currently really working to handle the influx, and suddenly making such a big jump would be a huge mess (as would moving after it); we’d presumably have to learn a whole new skillset to make it all work; etc.

separately, and at least speaking for myself: we are a bunch of hobbyists running what is essentially a hobbyist website. three days ago we had 700 accounts and like 20 active users. while it’d be cool to be 100% ethical and all that, i don’t think it’s fair to make us accountable for the actions/opinions of the people who make that software, nor treat our use of X software as endorsing their actions/opinions. i think that is particularly true in this case.

You’re gonna have to explain this in a lot more detail. Can you help us understand what kbin is, and how it differs from lemmy? What are the pros and cons of each? What do you mean “issues with the main lemmy developers”?

Arguably, regardless of these issues, a big problem is that we’ve just accepted a ton of people and donations so moving away would probably be quite painful in terms of getting moderators used to the new tools, onboarding new people and losing tons of conversations in the process…

It’s also worth noting that kbin considering themselves to be in early beta does not inspire much confidence at first glance and I do not know much about the kbin developers or its community so I can’t tell if it would be a safe jump either.

I think it’s something to keep in mind but I would not consider it today personally.

plus there’s the whole issue with the main Lemmy developers that comes all the way since 2021

Could you expand on this?