TIL that Lemmy.ml is actively blocking user-agent string kbin
One of the main instances of Lemmy (lemmy.ml) is blocking 'kbinbot' user agent requests on their instance. Basically, they are blocking kbin instances. This is not a bug, but on purpose.
I couldn't find anything related in their source-code, so this is block is only present on lemmy.ml (or maybe some other Lemmy instances).
This is causing quite a lot of federation issues with Kbin instances. Resulting in various failed messages (from the messenger handler).
The silence from Lemmy developers on this is damning. If this was an accident (i.e. lumping "kbinbot" in with a blanket block of other user agents), it would have been a two second fix.
Even more damning is that common agents that are being used for bot attacks, as discussed in the Lemmy matrix, are not blocked. For example: