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:
- https://lemmy.world/comment/1082149 (appears to have been where they first noticed and fixed the issue)
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1920972 (posted a few hours later, provides additional context for what happened)
@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?
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…
You’re thinking of lemmygrad.ml
Lemmy.ml is pretty diverse as far as I’m aware.
Doesn’t the .ml stand for marx and lenin?
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.
Thank you for this! I’ve been wondering what it was but didn’t care enough to look it up.