Is lemmy.ml partially blocking /kbin instances? - eviltoast

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.

  • Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t have a specific answer to what is happening but I’ll add that I have recently noticed that practically nothing that I post has been getting through to kbin. Posts that I’ve made onto beehaw.org, lemmy.ml, fmhy.ml, blahaj.zone, programming.dev, pawb.social, etc. etc. aren’t getting through to kbin, and none of them are defederating it.

    On my home instance I have 16 posts, 142 comments

    On kbin I have 8 posts, 67 comments

    It seems like something is fundamentally broken with the connection to kbin, not specifically lemmy.ml.

    • IntlLawGnome@lemmy.caOP
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      1 year ago

      Could be, for sure. I may try to post some things from Lemmy.ca to Kbin later. I was successful in posting from Kbin to Lemmy.ca a few hours ago, so I wonder if there’s a problem in the other direction.