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Federated user bans - is this expected? (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Essentially title. I now have 8 users listed as banned on my instance, although I have not banned anyone, yet:

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Is this a bug or feature?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A feature, but I also fail to understand its exact purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There's also a question of what happens if I unban somebody I hadn't banned. Does the account get unbanned globally as well?

[–] awdsns 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I read somewhere that this is just an artifact of the "ban" event being propagated, basically as a "FYI", but essentially meaningless for your instance, because those remote accounts could only log in on their home instance and interact with yours from there anyway.

It's not ideal that this clutters the list of the banned users on your instance though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That makes sense, I guess. Also gives hope that it will get sorted out in the future.

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