Has kbin defederated or is federation bugging? - Lemmy
lemmy.ml
I’m asking since I can’t seem to access some kbin communities on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] but they are available from other instances. I tested this a few days ago so things might have changed. I also have the same question for fedia.io [http://fedia.io]. I can see it from other instances but not lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. Are there issues? I’m asking since there was no response to previous posts.

Apparently one of the lemmy.ml admins was overzealous in banning all User-Agent strings that contained the string “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.

  • kglitch@kglitch.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    Kinda crazy that the lemmy admins only heard about it 12 hours ago. This situation went on for many days.

    • Melpomene@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      There were a number of people who’d claimed that they reached out, but whether the admins saw those messages is a valid question. Assuming the best seems best for now… though I do understand why people might find the entire situation a bit odd.