On lemmy, a ban can be a few different things:
- Banned from the instance your account is on. This means you have to make a new account, usually on a different instance.
- Banned from a different instance than the one your account is on. This means you get banned from communities you’ve participated in on that instance, and that instance will no longer federate with your account. You might participate in new communities on that instance, and people not on that will see your comments, but people on the instance you were banned from won’t see them. From the perspective of that instance you don’t exist anymore.
- Not banned from any instances, but banned from individual communities. You can’t post in that specific community but can still interact with the instance that community is on.
Like someone else said, clear as mud, lol.
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 year ago
Put simply, Lets say hypothetically he’s like you on lemmy.cafe.
and we’ll say he’s posting to to lemmy.world/c/memes which he was banned from.
His post will show up to lemmy.cafe users connected to memes… but his posts will only show up on the lemmy.cafe version of memes. When cafe federates back to world, world will just ignore the posts and not share them.
In addition they won’t be seen by, lets say programming.dev here, while it hasn’t banned this person, it’s looking to world for it’s copy of the community, which will not have your friends posts.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That seems like it could cause issues with moderation. If they start posting spam in the community, how is it dealt with for the sake of lemmy.cafe users?
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 year ago
I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485
to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Interesting.
So posts and comments from a remote instance first go to the communiy’s home instance, before they are then further propagated out to other remote instances?
And that’s where this filtering of banned users would happen?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Also, if your instance admins banned a mod from your instance, their mod actions wouldn’t be shown to your instance. So, a mod could remove your comment, or ban you from a community, and you wouldn’t notice it on your instance’s local copy, but your comments would never show up to the community (only users on your instance will see it).
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s my understanding of it, I’m not an expert so… I’m only giving 70% confidence in my answer.