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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Because, when you post here from kbin.social any other instance with kbinMeta@kbin.social will get a copy of that and vice-versa. But each side is exchanging posts from multiple magazines to multiple other instances. It’s also balancing resource usage for people visiting the site too.

    Also new instances are gradually fetching the back-catalog of posts for various magazines (and communities on lemmy). So all of this leads to a delay.

    Anecdotally the delay is quite short this morning. Yesterday it reached up to 2 hours from my view at least.



  • 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.