Apparently one of the lemmy.ml admins was overzealous in banning all User-Agent strings that contained the word "bot". Bans were entered for all of the individual strings containing that word which were observed in their webserver logs, which impacted kbin's reported agent of "kbinBot"....
I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this...
I don't know how I never stumbled upon Lemmy before, I've been looking for a worthwhile alternative to Reddit for over a year now. Guess I wasn't looking hard enough!
For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama. Apparently lemmy.ml is the result of a reddit sub ban of a bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty terrible stuff!...
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/5cf5ef07-c35f-4368-83b1-9dace386445e.jpeg...
While Education and Organizing is building the parts for a new engine the rest of the year.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/e0863d8d-42e3-4ebe-938f-59628e124f74.jpeg
This law allows the NSA to “accidentally” collect american communication and the FBI to access the “incidental” communication without a warrant....
“Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their checkmarks”...
This is the first time in about 15 years that he will finally see the sunlight.
