Lemmy Support @lemmy.ml pineapple @lemmy.pineapplemachine.com 1y ago

Why are there automatically banned users on my instance?

I haven't banned anyone, and as far as I know none of the other users on my instance currently have moderation privileges. So why am I seeing two users in a "banned" list when I visit my instance settings page? What horrible, unforgivable things did these users have to do for my instance to ban them seemingly of its own accord..?

(I have manually unbanned these users since taking the screenshot, since I didn't see any reason why they should have been banned in the first place.)

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It seems like if a user gets banned on their own instance, they show up on this list for everyone (I also see them on my ban list here), so unbanning them on your end probably does nothing.

Seems like just a bug, I think this list should only show local users who are banned, and instead it shows every ban it knows about across the fediverse.
- Its not a bug but the mod log could use better filtering.
  
  I don't think the perceived bug is that the bans show up in the mod log. The perceived bug is that bans propagate, i.e. a user banned in lemmy.ml is also apparently banned in every other instance that federates with lemmy.ml
- It seems like if a user gets banned on their own instance, they show up on this list for everyone (I also see them on my ban list here), so unbanning them on your end probably does nothing.
  
  Seems like just a bug, I think this list should only show local users who are banned, and instead it shows every ban it knows about across the fediverse.
  
  I mean, the users have remained unbanned, at least as far as my own instance's settings go. The list is empty since I unbanned each user after a look at their seemingly benign history. But I guess that if they are banned on the instance they registered on, then they probably aren't able to interact with any federated instances in any case?
  
  Right, it doesn’t really matter if you unban them if their home instance is the one that banned them in the first place 👍
You should make a community called "pizza" on your instance.
- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, I sure never heard that one before
I have come across this too. It almost seems to federate out bans if they are banned on their own instance as mentioned here already
If they are banned on their home instance, then are they banned everywhere? Does it work like an email address, where if your hosting server (Gmail for instance) bans your email address, then you can no longer send or recieve emails?

So if your home lemmy server bans you, then how could you ever post anywhere else?

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