This is not just Reddit imho. Look at Twitter, everyone is mad all the time over there. I’m not sure how to explain what is happening but it’s all over the board imho. People get offended for everything, they seem to fail at empathy, they love to hate, it makes them feel good about themselves, every topic is somehow black or white too.

It has been mentioned, but this is not a search. It is a way to list all local magazines of an instance. Does not go through the fediverse as far as I know.

Thanks. So there isn’t really a search, you have to list all the magazines and do the search yourself it seems. Also calling https://kbin.social/api/magazines would only return local magazines right. So there is a need for a service doing that crawling/indexing of all magazines from all available instances regularly.

Isn’t this violating the GDPR? At least for European citizens.

Not sure what you mean. Sure you can buy any domain and put it behind. But ultimately you are much easier to doxx. Between whois, server IP etc. Then there is the issue of the security on that server too, but that’s another story. What would be better is to have a way to put this behind TOR/I2p, that would make things a bit better.
On a centralized website the issue is less present as only the admins of the server can see the details about you, ip etc (maybe mods can too on reddit, not sure), here everyone can see everything, it’s a lot more invasive imho. Everytime you upvote/downvote something, your account handle is saved on the post as upvoter/downvoter. This is very juicy data to build profiles and analytics on people.

The main issue I see with that is the privacy issue. You can host your kbin instance with your own domain yes, but then everyone can see your domain after your username. And it becomes quite easy to doxx you then…