Mbin performs quite well. I just applied the most recent update which removed mercure and it’s very fast now.

I was probably the most prominent person who runs both and had database issues with k/mbin. I am happy to say that those are well behind me, largely because of the skill and patience of the Mbin team helping me resolve them.

ok, image proxying should be enabled now

I don’t have an intention to block threads here

You can see the details on user counts here: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/infosec.pub.

There are about 450 active accounts.

It’s hard to pin down the memory and CPU usage, as it’s running on a very large pair of AMD servers that host many sites. I posted the details of those servers are in the thread below. Prior to moving to this server, I was running the instance on a single 16 core AMD system with 64GB of ram.

Disk wise, it uses about 500GB. Overall, it is pretty efficient, particularly compared to kbin/mbin, however I think those are tough to compare against, since they have streaming updates and a heavier user interface.

My server bill is about $3000 per month, but that includes Infosec.exchange, which is a very large instance with about 17000 active users.

I block them as they come up as problematic. There isn’t a handy list of instances to block like in mastodon. I will block those others.

I do what I can…

You bet! I am glad to be able to do it

I think v0.18 may have a few bugs. But it’s still far better than the prior version

now that I have upgraded, I can finally respond you this!

I have to say, the spinning post button is super annoying...

Thanks for your patience