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/[email protected]
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 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 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. ☺️
