They were for a few weeks, until today. I’m commenting from Kbin right now.
Turns out lemmy.ml admins had blocked a lot of bots and “kbinBot” (which is the useragent name used by Kbin for federation requests) was inadvertently among the blocked bots. The lemmy.ml admins took a long time to get it fixed, but it finally works again now.
But lemmy.ml are blocking kbin instance and kbin bots 😩
They were for a few weeks, until today. I’m commenting from Kbin right now.
Turns out lemmy.ml admins had blocked a lot of bots and “kbinBot” (which is the useragent name used by Kbin for federation requests) was inadvertently among the blocked bots. The lemmy.ml admins took a long time to get it fixed, but it finally works again now.
Hmm… I will try again. Because some like fedia.io still blocked… smh…