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relevant magazine is /m/RedditMigration here on kbin.social. You can see it's the one and only report in the modlog yet the user who removed the comment is not listed in the moderators list, is not even a kbin.social user, and did not remove a lemmy.ml comment. Yet, it was removed for me as a kbin.social user.

How is this moderation working exactly? It's understandable that lemmy.ml mods can remove things for lemmy users, and mods on a magazine can remove things on the magazine. But it seems this is an unrelated user, removing a post of a user from an unrelated instance from a unrelated magazine.

How is this possible? what's going on here?

Edit: I checked on lemmy.world's copy and the comment is still visible, meaning the removal did not federate to lemmy.world.

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[–] arkcom@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bad news for the "who cares how evil the devs are, they can't affect anyone else" crowd.

[–] yozul@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. That has to be a bug in kbin, not a problem with Lemmy. Lemmy allows admins to delete stuff off their own instance, but kbin shouldn't be just accepting that as a mod action from any admin on any server it's federated with. That doesn't even make sense. I assume it's just a weird interaction of different ways of handling things on kbin and Lemmy.

[–] arkcom@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It honestly would be a terrible idea to allow some cross instance moderation to help ease the load. It would just require a lot of trust.

Edit: yes I meant wouldn't ^. don't want to change it now.

[–] garrettw87@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I assume you meant to type "wouldn't" at the beginning

[–] arkcom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Obviously only between instances that agree to it and trust each other.
There already seems a way for a lemmy user to moderate communities on other servers.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

not sure if that's actually the case, but if it is... yikes.