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Banned users on my instance (lemmy.1204.org)

submitted 1 year ago by italiota@lemmy.1204.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have just logged in on my own Lemmy instance, and I see a list of banned users in the administrative area, from other instances. I have not banned anyone myself.

How does it work? If you’re banned from an instance, you’re banned from the whole federation?

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[–] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same question.
My theory is:
When the instance admins ban one of the users off of their instance, the ban event gets transmitted to everyone that’s federated, so that other instances can stop seeing posts from that user too.

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

That would imply that any instance admin, even those that created theirs for themself only, can just ban users on other instance. That would be a major attack vector and it kind of defeats the purpose of the autonomy each instance is supposed to have...