I have no idea, and it’s entirely possible there’s so sort of weird coincidence, in which case if someone can prove me otherwise, I will eat my cowboy hat.
imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
How can that happen? I thought each instance was governed and… stored(don’t understand lemmy) by its own admin.
Cross Instance manipulation seems antithetical to the decentralized nature of Lemme.
How does their instance reach over and change another instance?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago 
pieguy@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago You first need to provide us proof that you do indeed own a cowboy hat.
- wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
snowe@programming.dev 6 hours ago
It’s because an instance ban is a major action usually reserved for bots or pedophiles spreading bad things. If every single admin had to remove that user and their posts it would allow bots to spread things like wildfire and for CSAM to stay up for an indefinite amount of time.
It’s much better and safer for the entire fediverse that instance bans propagate deletions.