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So this has happened on a couple of my posts, but when I saw it affecting @gabe's recent intro post, I thought I'd call it out here.

Here's a screenshot - first image is of how the post looks when you're not logged in, the second is with login:

https://imgur.com/a/lRMP9yf

You can see even though there's two comments listed as being present on the 2nd shot, no comments appear.

So to determine whether this was client side or server side, I tested it out on multiple browsers and got the same result, indicating it's not a client side issue, and it's not related to my kbin extension scripts on Firefox. I can't find any settings within my profile that would affect this (if there's one I'm missing, please let me know).

For reference, here are the two of my posts that I'm finding the same behavior on:

[https://kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/332463/Untitled-by-at-Aphel

I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message queue with transport errors.

This doesn't appear to be a mistake; it has been done very deliberately, only on Lemmy.ml. Lemmy.world and other large instances do not exhibit the same behavior. It also isn't a side effect of the bug introduced in Lemmy 0.18. You can observe by sending the following in a terminal

 undefined

    
> curl -I --user-agent "kbinBot v0.1" https://lemmy.world/u/test
HTTP/2 200
[...]

> curl -I --user-agent "kbinBot v0.1" https://lemmy.ml/u/test                                
HTTP/2 403
[...]

> curl -I --user-agent "notKbinBot v0.1" https://lemmy.ml/u/test

  

Edit: this appears to be a bug actually, the gonewild community example i gave below was actually flagged as nsfw, and on lemmy posts are blurred when disabling nsfw in settings, but kbin still shows the posts

As of right now ticking "hide adult content" in settings only works for posts with an NSFW flag set by the creator.

However, i've just come across a surge of uncensored porn on the homepage even. I dont know whether people dont tick "post is NSFW" out of ignorance (they might not realise the option exists), or for predatory reasons.

Solution:

Not only hiding posts with the NSFW filter, but also maintaining a blacklist of NSFW magazines. A good filter would be to hide all magazines with "gonewild" or "porn" in the name for example.

Magazines/instances to blacklist

• the entire lemmynsfw.com instance
• gonewild from lemmyworld
• any other magazine/instance with the term "nsfw", "porn", or "gonewild" in the name