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 can guarantee you that the majority of Lemmy.ml users have absolutely no clue about the political views of their admins. There’s a reason why Lemmy.ml is so much larger than Lemmygrad.ml.

    And I’ve seen stupid conspiracy shit on kbin and lemmy.world as well.

    • Gull@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The issue is not whether there is some individual occasion where some individual person posts “conspiracy shit.”

      The issue is whether admins act on user reports of blatant anti-semitism.