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  • Welcome to the statistically-likely club!

  • I've used Wise (formerly TransferWise) for international transfers a couple of times. They use "mid market" exchange rates so tend to be on the cheaper side as far as total loss of value on a transfer (fees + exchange rate losses).

    Admittedly it's been a couple of years since I last looked around at these services though!

  • Fedia.io is shutting down (and re-opening as a Lemmy instance)

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  • 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: https://feddit.online/m/feddit/t/66403/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.