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lemmy.ml is no longer shadowbanning kbin. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 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:

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[–] Countmacula@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that would be a terrible idea, respectfully.

Many reddit refugees made communities on .ml. I did. I didn't know about all the tankie junk.

That would kneecap my small (but growing) community.

Perhaps a solution to all this would be a community migration tool or a "community' instance that holds them.

[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A community migration tool would 100% make sense for both Kbin and Lemmy, especially if there were an option to link the old, read-only community to the new location, redirect users to the new location from the old. That would also facilitate consolidating communities who want to consolidate.

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

If I signed up to a mag on one instance, that doesn't mean I want to sign up to it on a different instance.

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

Fair, so perhaps just a notification that goes out if an instance moves? Community with its settings and posts moves, but the users can be invited (or not, per their settings) to migrate too?