I think there's some sort of DDOS attack going around because I've been in the same boat with kbin.earth slowing down. kbin.earth's traffic has nearly doubled in just the past few days and I'm still trying to figure out the source.

I found:

For support, please visit our matrix channel at: #fedia.io:melroy.org

I've had luck communicating with the kbin.earth admin on matrix

There is !fedia@fedia.io but that place seems inactive. I couldn't find a status page listed in their sidebar. When I was looking around it was very slow so it isn't just a problem with you

If they haven't taken action against the the genai scraping bots going around, it's likely what causing those slowdowns

I’ve noticed intermittent issues on my instance as well. Perhaps targeted disruption.

Same, I had troubles with loading times as well, Jerry is pretty active on Mastodon, you can try mentioning him (And post about it on !fedia@fedia.io )

@Novamdomum@fedia.io Yep, it's completely down for me today.

@jerry@infosec.exchange Not sure if you're already aware.

Yeah, it's having issues like a MF.