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Is lemmy.ml partially blocking /kbin instances? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A post on kbinMeta states that "Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances." More details here, but the theory is that -- rather than defederating -- lemmy.ml returns a 403 'access denied' message in response to any inbound requests from a user agent with "kbinBot" in the string. Upvotes, comments, and boosts don't seem to be going through. However, it appears that lemmy.ml still federates information outbound to kbin instances.

I'm wondering if anyone here knows what is going on and why it might be happening? Federation between Lemmy instances and Kbin instances seems to be a selling point for both, so I'm sure others using both services are curious as to what's going on.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looking at the thread there it looks like this is just affecting the lemmy.ml instance specifically, I was worried for a sec since I follow some kbin magazines myself.

I wonder if lemmy.ml is using some kind of WAF that has started auto blocking the requests from kbin, thinking its a DoS attack/malicious bot? I can't see a reason why the devs would intentionally do this...