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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've observed the same thing, it is weird but could just be a query that's not filtering out local vs remote bans.

My modlog shows a lot of stuff too despite the fact I don't even host any communities, I'd expect that to remain empty, but figured it's transparency across the fediverse?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy basically mirrors entire remote communities excluding media in the local db, which I'm guessing includes mod actions. No idea why remote bans are also shown apparently, I'm experiencing the same thing