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lemmy.ml is no longer shadowbanning kbin. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blightbow@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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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:

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[–] gentleman@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (19 children)

@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?

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (14 children)

You're thinking of lemmygrad.ml

Lemmy.ml is pretty diverse as far as I'm aware.

[–] -spam-@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Diverse but still full of tankies.

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