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lemmy.ml is no longer shadowbanning kbin. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 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:

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)

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[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're thinking of lemmygrad.ml

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

[–] blightbow@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty much this. It still gets a lot of flack for being operated by the developers of Lemmy, but there are a large number of users and communities that exist on lemmy.ml for no other reason than it being one of the larger original instances. Most operators of high-volume instances are unlikely to take action against lemmy.ml unless a situation develops that gives them no other choice.

[–] Xathonn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the .ml stand for marx and lenin?

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brainfreeze@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this! I've been wondering what it was but didn't care enough to look it up.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are the same people.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you all conflate the admins with the userbase. Lemmy.ml has a lot of regular users & communities. In that sense you would have to blanket block all Lemmy instances in general.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

A community and its direction is though largely depending on the Admins.
Just recently some tankie posted a "meme" on "meme" that just casually tried to claim the Rothschild Family was intertwined with western media and because of that western media bad, just the casual antisemitism. And the Admins did not care.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browsing any Lemmy instance is like swimming in a public pool and saying only the other half of it is filled with piss and this part is fine...

Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml are both run by the same developers and occupied by the same users: tankies and people who are pro CCP apologists.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PSA: All public swimming pools are filled with piss.

[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It used to be filled with stingrays and Aids, so piss is tad bit better