Conversation about this on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1563840
Something something compatibility issues. Hope they get things fixed because it initially sounded like censorship
The linked discussion sounds like nobody knows for sure since the admins are keeping quiet. Which is weird.
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:
curl -i --user-agent "python-requests/1.2.3" https://lemmy.ml/
Works fine.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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