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.


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

  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    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
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      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.