Has kbin defederated or is federation bugging? - Lemmy
lemmy.ml
I’m asking since I can’t seem to access some kbin communities on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] but they are available from other instances. I tested this a few days ago so things might have changed. I also have the same question for fedia.io [http://fedia.io]. I can see it from other instances but not lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. Are there issues? I’m asking since there was no response to previous posts.

Apparently one of the lemmy.ml admins was overzealous in banning all User-Agent strings that contained the word “bot”. Bans were entered for all of the individual strings containing that word which were observed in their webserver logs, which impacted kbin’s reported agent of “kbinBot”.

The issue has been fixed, and I observed that one of my kbin posts to a lemmy.ml community was successfully pushed to the original instance.

Edit:

Here are all the links that I’ve found with the lemmy.ml admins discussing the issue:

  • gentleman@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    @blightbow Thanks. I appreciate the work that the admins here do. Kbin-social is a nice landing pad for this reddit refugee. That said, I don’t have an interest in posting to lemmy.ml because they seem to be a bunch of tankies, which is being generous. The question in my mind is why kbin-social hasn’t returned the favor and banned them as well as their gulag archipelago instance?

    • AnonTwo@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Return the favor and…not ban them? Because this thread is explaining that it was a bug and has been fixed, meaning no shadowban is occurring anymore…

      • blightbow@kbin.socialOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        Pretty much this. It still gets a lot of flack for being operated by the developers of Lemmy, but there are a large number of users and communities that exist on lemmy.ml for no other reason than it being one of the larger original instances. Most operators of high-volume instances are unlikely to take action against lemmy.ml unless a situation develops that gives them no other choice.

        • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          I think you all conflate the admins with the userbase. Lemmy.ml has a lot of regular users & communities. In that sense you would have to blanket block all Lemmy instances in general.

          • Alexmitter@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            A community and its direction is though largely depending on the Admins.
            Just recently some tankie posted a “meme” on “meme” that just casually tried to claim the Rothschild Family was intertwined with western media and because of that western media bad, just the casual antisemitism. And the Admins did not care.

        • livus@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s the rumour.

          It’s technically the domain for Malawi, who operate a free domain name scheme.

          But apparently those devs picked it because of Marx Lenin.

      • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Browsing any Lemmy instance is like swimming in a public pool and saying only the other half of it is filled with piss and this part is fine…

        Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml are both run by the same developers and occupied by the same users: tankies and people who are pro CCP apologists.

    • sparseMatrix@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      @gentleman

      @blightbow

      I too tried to flee reddit for lemmy.ml, over a year ago now - and found it to be a far worse clusterfucked shitstorm than reddit ever was, and I mean that ideologically, philosophically, politically, and morally.

      I just didn’t go back until the current exodus, mainly because I was trying to see if the account still worked, and it had been lost/purged/banned whatever

      fuck those guys and the horse they rode in on, then far as I’m concerned, they can ride it back out of here wet.

      Might as well federate with facebook.