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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have my own instance where I'm the only user and only admin. I have only banned two users (porn spam bots), but my ban list has hundreds of users, and I have no idea how they got here. I can see who banned them in the modlog and why, but how did they get banned on my instance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they banned from a community that you follow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't checked that specifically, but that seems plausible. Do users banned from communities get federated with the community?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, bans on a community are federated, so your copy of the community also removes their content.