My RSS reader, Thunderbird, is suddenly throwing errors on all my ani.social feeds (communities, inbox). Trying to very through the feed subscriptions page I get a “The Feed URL is not authorized.” message.
Looking at the error log, it’s complaining about not well formed XML and clicking on the link results in an attempt to complete a Cloudflare “Verify you are human” challenge.
I’m not getting these issues on any other instances. RSS getting blocked like this is the reason I left Reddit for Lemmy in the first place.
auster@thebrainbin.org@thebrainbin.org
Sorry about that. I’ve been tightening the bot challenge rules because of the amount of bots scraping the site lately. I exempted
/feedsso please let me know if it’s working for you now.flameleaf@ani.social 5 days ago
Feeds are validating now. Thanks for fixing it!