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this post was submitted on 06 May 2026
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The rest of the demonstration will probably happen later.
I don’t see how this is a “how do I?” type question at all - I read thru the community rules before posting to make sure and didn’t spot anything I felt this post would be violating. I’m asking about the mechanics of mod action federation on the fediverse, not for any sort of support or site specific answers
Sigh, Rule 5 definitely needs clarifying....
There could be federation delay between mod actions. The source code doesn't make it immediately obvious, but it looks like all activities are delivered to various inboxes, including moderation actions. Workers and polling could potentially make this stochastic.
EDIT: This was looking at the Lemmy source code (in rust). piefed source is in python. It could also be a bug in the interaction between those different implementations
I wonder if the empty piefed.zip modlog is a lemmy/piefed federation issue then? The user account I’m looking at to test this has many mod actions going back years on the .world side, but none at all on piefed.zip. Meanwhile on lemmy.zip, many (but not all) of the .world mod actions are federated so something does seem to be fucky between the lemmy/piefed modlogs.
Either way, there seems to be at least one aspect of the modlog federation that’s very unclear (at least to me) which is why I was hoping someone with more knowledge of it could give a general overview of how it all works lol
Yeah, really solving this will require deeper code spelunking than I did. If you checkout both repos and point a robot at it asking it specifically to trace the modlog federation, you might get a better answer. You could also empirically debug this by setting up a couple of instances, federate them, and see what happens.
Nothing to do with federation. piefed.zip decided not to make their modlog public. It's an admin setting within piefed. IIRC, it isn't an option in lemmy.
Ohhh thank you this explains a lot!