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Are bans propagated to other sites? (lemmy.ninja)

submitted 1 year ago by RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This morning I was forced to ban about 18 users for being obvious spambots. That deleted their content on my instance. Are they now banned on other instances, too? I'm just trying to figure out what the best process is for eliminating these spambots for good before they flood all of our feeds.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if you mean whether these posts are also deleted for people viewing your instance through another, federated instance, then yes, that is the case.

[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to get rid of spam bots, ban them on your own instance and defederate any instance that doesn't do the same.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Today some spam bots posted about 20 or so posts, and they originated from thegarden.land, feddit.nu, lemmy.film, lemmus.org, feddit.nl, pricefield.org, lemmy.world, and geddit.social. I'm not sure I'm ready to defederate lemmy.world over a single account. There must be a better way.

[–] bipmi@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Being able to ban people across instances would defeat the entire point of the fediverse. The best solution would either be to just defederate from instances that spawn lots of bots, or to contact those instances and work on the issue with them. There isn't really any other better way that I can think of