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Those links are working fine. Kbin is federating well with those instances. A bit of latency is normal.

Before assuming no one has asked them, let’s read the post

“Yes, people have already tried reaching out to the Lemmy instance admins in their Matrix room with no answer.”

According to the edit in the main post, yes, they have been asked.

Relevant question on Lemmy.ml, in addition to prompting on Matrix is here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1563840

It looks better than reddit.

Its a huge downgrade from reddit in terms of visual quality. But im soeaking on mobile safari so i guess that will explain alot but anyways heres what i see.

The posts that have pictures dont really show that well until you click on it. You need to scroll down a whole thread to comment on a post. Creating a post/thread is confusing, its hard to navigate “magazines” (idk why theyd call it that), theres a lot of problems with it.

Lemmy looked pretty bad on mobile safari, far worse than kbin

I wouldn’t really call it “rumors” when you can go directly to the horse’s mouth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.

Posting this in light of a recent one week Reddit ban I earned for shitting on US police, as I’m sure many of us have gotten in recent weeks.

So I’ve spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it’s pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we’d have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.

Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are, so we should never abandon Reddit entirely, but it’s been clear to all of us from day one, that communities like this stand on unsteady ground, and could be banned or quarantined at any moment by the white supremacist Reddit admins. This would be both a backup and a potentially better alternative. Moderation abilities are there, as well as a slur filter.

Raddle isn’t an option obviously since it’s run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

I wanted to ask ppl here if they’d like me to host an instance, and mod all the current mods here.

My concern is with this line: Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are. I’m pretty left-leaning myself (I draw the line at authoritarianism though), but they’re very open about using their platform to push an agenda.

That post was made by the founder of Lemmy and the instance they mention at the end became Lemmygrad (because lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are the same people - the “.ml” in “lemmy.ml” even stands for “Marxist-Leninist”).

With Lemmy.ml as the “main” instance, you’re exposing all these posts to an admin team who has openly said “we are agitating for our views wherever the people go, and we have ultimate control over all content.” They have already removed posts critical of China as being “orientalist” (which shows a severe lack of understanding of what “orientalism” even is - it’s not “anything that criticizes our Dear Leader”). I can’t trust that any community hosted on lemmy.ml is free of bias.

It isn’t “rumors” when you can clearly go and back it up with a source.

(FWIW - I don’t mind Lemmy as a platform. My Lemmy account is actually from 2020, before I realized what they truly were. The maintainers have done a good job of keeping politics out of the software, and the concept of only using “ethical” things is a myth when your computer has rare earth elements in it. As far as instances go, Lemmy.world seems fantastic and has grown to be far larger than the tankie instances. But Kbin is more fully-featured and has a lot more long-term potential, even though it’s lacking in the short-term.)

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I think liking an internet post and voting for the leadership of the government are not suitable for comparison here.

Sounds like youre spewing a lot of bullshit or intentionally misguiding. Read the thread below you and youll see.

Well, lemmy.ml is the lemmy devs. Kbin is a competitor to their software. They might hate that Kbin is growing really fast and I think is overall better than straight lemmy.

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I don’t think it’s assuming anything to say that they deliberately blocked user agents containing the text “kbinbot” (case insensitive). I think it’s fairly clear that’s exactly what has happened here. Instructions to test as many variations as you want yourself are right in the main post in the thread.

Now, what we cannot say is whether it was done with malicious intent. There’s some plausible reasons they might do it that are not malicious.

• assert “no different”
• list one single, disputable similarity

Ideally it’s a config error at the firewall. I saw an interesting idea posed on the lemmy post suggesting that it may have been targeted by a DDoS that used kbinbot in the user-agent string.

Ultimately, it’s not happening at a code level, it’s absolutely happening at a firewall level (nginx, which, for those who don’t understand, is kind of acting like the door lock on your apartment building, where you need to go through the main security before you can get to your own place. Sort of the same idea here). I just spent a bunch of time testing a bunch of various user-agent strings, and it very specifically is matching “kbinbot”. No wildcarding within the word, but it a string like “blahbinbotblah” will 403, whereas “blahkbbinbotblah” won’t (and various other forms, like k.bin.bot, or kasdfbinasdfbot.)

It’s pretty specific. Anyone who deals with firewalls in any capacity understands how nginx works, and specifically why they and others are raising an alarm.

So yeah, ideally it’s a misconfiguration, otherwise it’s a fairly clear message.

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