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Why does a personal instance have a list of banned users I didn't ban? (biglemmowski.win)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by taaz@biglemmowski.win to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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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

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[-] norb@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago

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. ☺️

[-] taaz@biglemmowski.win 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~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.
Might also be~~ wrong, new to this federation :)

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