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