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:

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 year ago

    Took way too long to get this addressed. But thanks you for solving this issue. There were the strangest stories going around on why kbin was blocked.