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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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[–] 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...