Conversation about this on lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/post/1563840
Today I Learned
Today I Learned (TIL). You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
Something something compatibility issues. Hope they get things fixed because it initially sounded like censorship
The linked discussion sounds like nobody knows for sure since the admins are keeping quiet. Which is weird.
Well I don't like that
A fundamental flaw with using an open source project is not knowing if they build/run directly from the open source code.
Things like this lack of transparency worry me about the future of this platform. I mean it's the same type of crap a big company would do then just not respond to people asking about it.
The silence from Lemmy developers on this is damning. If this was an accident (i.e. lumping "kbinbot" in with a blanket block of other user agents), it would have been a two second fix. Even more damning is that common agents that are being used for bot attacks, as discussed in the Lemmy matrix, are not blocked. For example:
curl -i --user-agent "python-requests/1.2.3" https://lemmy.ml/
Works fine.