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Why does a personal instance have a list of banned users I didn't ban? (biglemmowski.win)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1298