So I try to make heads or tails of this situation. I got randomly banned from a community where I posted a youtube video showing something from a Convention. Then I wanted to post a question today but realised that I couldn't since I was banned. That community is sadly the biggest of all Star Citizen communities (the next one would be from lemmy.world)
I took a look at the Mod log and see the following line in it:
So no clean up of violating comments or posts, just a strict out ban.
The community has a pretty standard ruleset:
further, the moderator @[email protected] hasn't posted anything since a year, so what gives here, or was it some other mod that was able to declare the ban?
Hrm, I see. But that block seems to just set Lemmy's default "user-level instance blocking", which does not block users from the instance, only communities. i.e., it's the same as the Lemmy web UI, and in it I see that I've already blocked Lemmy.ml, for all the good that it does - which I mean to say is not much.
So I meant here that the app does not provide additional functionality beyond the web UI, to do something that the web UI can or will not.
And this is why I don't want to write a post about this topic - it's terribly confusing, with so many fine-grain details that can trip someone up. This would be better written by a team of people who each know more about the various aspects, i.e. the different apps and methods of accessing the Fediverse. But at least here I offered what little I do know personally.
ooh i didn’t even realize there was a difference. you’re right, it is terribly confusing hahaha
It's done that way on purpose, blocking the users from an instance can disrupt the flow of communities. It's purpose isn't to filter out users, it's to filter out all communities on that instance. It's not an alternative or replacement to defederation it's an alternative to blocking every community from a specific instance, which is long and tedious.