I did send a donation, but I want to make sure the people involved know I appreciates them.
I set up an instance and have been using it along with a couple friends. It’s fast, private and doesn’t have a bunch of algo bullshit wasting our time. I have my subs and I watch them, and then I go and touch grass because I’m not sitting there watching trash that is being pushed at me on the feed.
It’s like a breath of fresh air.
Running my own instance is a non-starter because it’s my own bandwidth limitations that bring me to the library to begin with. I think kavin.rocks blocks the library. But other piped instances might be worth a look. Though if it works it probably won’t work for long before the library shuts them down too.