Just wondering tried to upvote and comment on beehaw kept gettin errors

  • Spectator@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was really surprised to hear this, so I dug a little deeper. It looks like an honest mistake.

    Here’s what their admin said:

    We unintionally did until about 8 hours ago.

    Lemmy.ml has a ton of bot crawlers in its nginx logs spam fetching posts, so I added the bots to an nginx block. Turns out one called kbinbot wasn’t actually a crawling bot, but their federation requester.

    If we don’t respond quickly, its because we have notification backlogs that are months long at this point.

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      1 year ago

      That’s relieving to hear. I know the backstory of Kbin is that Ernest was originally a Lemmy contributor but he and Lemmy’s devs got into a disagreement about politics, so he went to start his own project instead. There was no communication about the block from Lemmy’s devs for a while so a lot of people, including me, theorized that it was related to the conflict.