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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

You're thinking of lemmygrad.ml

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are the same people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

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