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:

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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    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…