So I am hosting an instance for myself and I have noticed that when I go into Admin Settings (cog symbol) I get a beefy list of Banned Users on the right but I didn’t ban any of them.
Is this just unintuitive UI?
The way I thought this works is when I, as admin, ban user from my instance then that user won’t be able to log-in here anymore but when I ban a user from other instance then anything from that user won’t show up at all on my instance (kind of like shadow ban, but only for users of my instance).
E: I am the only admin/mod on my instance - the only user able to ban users, so there is noone else who could have banned someone without my knowledge.
Upd: Bans are federated and it makes sense, thanks /u/stown@sedd.it
Bans are federated. If a person posts a bunch of spam in a community that thousands of people subscribe to from hundreds of different servers, there needs to be way for the removal of that spam across all those servers.
I ran my own instance for a little bit, and I thought if you had servers you set up to “trust” (I forget the exact wording but there’s a field for it in admin settings) then bans can come in that way.
I could be completely wrong of course. ☺️
I found a thread somewhere here or in lemmy issues about bans and I am pretty sure bans do not sync across instances, allowed or not.wrong, new to this federation :)
Might also be
I’ve observed the same thing, it is weird but could just be a query that’s not filtering out local vs remote bans.
My modlog shows a lot of stuff too despite the fact I don’t even host any communities, I’d expect that to remain empty, but figured it’s transparency across the fediverse?
Lemmy basically mirrors entire remote communities excluding media in the local db, which I’m guessing includes mod actions. No idea why remote bans are also shown apparently, I’m experiencing the same thing
I don’t know how it works under the hood, but it makes sense to me from the perspective of an instance admin: the modding decisions I make on my instance should carry over to the federated copies of my instance’s communities, and vice versa.
