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:

  • Nepenthe@kbin.social
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    Goodness, I don’t think I’ve even played an MMO since Runescape characters gained knees. I miss those days. Back when milk was delivered in little glass bottles by desaturated Andy Griffith types and everything made sense.

    Accounts being somewhat disposable will probably be more encouraged here, what with navigating the risk of ever-present bans and a web of only semi-predictable federation. I’m sure a fourth of beehaw users have at least one alt, for instance, even if they do like the atmosphere.

    I always find choosing a name to be by far the worst of it, though. I’m terrible with decisions and I’ve had to sleep on this more than once. The moment of realization? Taking all the bothersome symbols and 1337 out of my name means all anyone looking for me is going to get now are pictures of plants and moody excerpts from Poe’s The Raven. Become unsearchable.