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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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[–] stown@sedd.it 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

User bans do federate. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1298

[–] exu@feditown.com 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, but only from the original community moderators / instance admins the community is on. This happens so a mod removing content also removes that content on any other instance following this community.

If you ban a user on your own instance, but originating somewhere else this will only make posts and comments by this user invisible for users on your instance.

[–] kafa@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

how can a user comment from another instance?

my user on lemmy.ml cannot login on other instances, or can it?