Looks like ernest was away when it went down. He is handing care of the instance over to others, so it sounds like it’s not dead yet!
I feel bad for the guy. It can’t be easy running an instance (that’s still in beta, technically) while also dealing with health problems.
He’s put a ton of work into Kbin, and I love how it is actually able to connect mastodon and lemmy. It also gives users a lot of control over the type of content they can see, even down to the domain level. To my knowledge, it’s the only one that does that.