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.
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.
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:
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.