ChemicalRascal

We have the foreknowledge of seeing EEE happen with XMPP/Google Chat, now. We can fight back against EEE against ActivityPub as it actually happens, with instances defederating with Meta and so on, when they start actually taking those negative actions. It’s gonna be fine.

That’s using your Google account, with Google’s OAuth, to get into an Outlook account — which is still weird and confusing, and IMO something Microsoft shouldn’t have done because it’ll confuse people, but hey.

As per OP’s edits, yes.

No, it’s specifically “kbinbot”, case insensitive. Even “botkbin” gets through just fine.

Well, it’s been more than a hot minute. How long are folks supposed to wait? There’s ultimately only two feasible scenarios here, given the details we have at hand.

They’re very visible!

They’re Tankies. Don’t confuse Tankies and communists, even if there’s a certain historical adjacency there. They are ultimately different concepts.

Something something, that’s how you get a Nazi bar.

Well that’s a bit fucked. I figured that maybe they’d just tried to block bots, but no, “testBot” goes through just fine. They specifically seem to be rejecting “kbinbot”, though, not just anything with “kbin” in it.