In the past weeks lemmy.ml was activity blocking all /kbin instances by looking at the user-agent string “KbinBot” (case-insensitive). Which causes quite a few problems on several /kbin instances, because lemmy.ml didn’t want to federate with ‘us’.

Recently, Lemmy.ml removed this block so it started federating again, at least so we thought.

Today it seems that Lemmy.ml is block all /kbin instances again:

curl -I --user-agent "kbinbot" https://lemmy.ml
HTTP/2 403
server: nginx
date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:02:34 GMT
content-type: text/html
content-length: 146
vary: Accept-Encoding

Lemmy developers or the community never responded to any of our questions or request for clarification about this matter.

Ps. I know lemmy.ml is not ‘whole Lemmy’. However, Lemmy.ml instance is hosted by the official Lemmy developers (Dessalines and nutomic) and considered one of their biggest instances.

@lemmy.ml Please, can you be transparent about the reason why? Could we help you maybe?