A bug was filed about this issue four months ago and ernest has commented on that thread, so he's aware of the problem. So far, no solution has been reached, which makes me as a moderator extremely demotivated. I don't want to put effort into building a community if comments that break community rules are federated but moderation is not.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Thanks for this info, I guess it's good to know it's on the to do list, but I completely agree, since realising this my motivation to post, knowing my moderation doesn't have any effect on a large chunk of users, has dropped significantly..
Is there a place to check for updates on this, is the post you shared it?
The bug report is the way to track this. Tho sometimes ernest makes posts in this magazine to share what's happening.
Ok, thanks! What's ernest's magazine called? I'll definitely subscribe to that, and keep an eye on the bug report.
This is actually due to the way these platforms work. When a user comments on a comment or post on their instance it will be shown on their instance. It's then sent on to the owning instance of that comment or post. That owning instance then forwards it on to all interested parties (magazine instance, commenters instance).
Any instance in that chain can refuse to forward or broadcast that message due to a block, but the users own instance will likely always show that post. Ideally they would not do that and would be made aware of a block but that is a bit of a grey area in ActivityPub implementations.
Thanks for explaining, but wow, that's really unfortunate and seems like something that needs addressing, especially since they're the biggest instance.
I thought the whole point was to have the freedom to associate and disassociate with the content of our choosing?
Is there a way to know if/when this is fixed? Because I honestly don't feel comfortable posting the content I do to my target audience if I can't properly keep the trash out.
What you're asking for is control over other intance's users. That's never gonna happen.
This is a software bug. Why would other normal instances not want to know about and enforce community ban lists? That just results in a poor experience for their own users.
OK, I misunderstood your case a bit. You're talking about community ban federation. Yea, that does make sense.
@adam thank you for explaining this. Am I correct to understand, then, that this is something about which we ought to approach the #activityPub devs, rather than ernest?
Ernest's comment that ActivityPub tries to federate moderation (but isn't ?why) was very interesting.
It seems to me, on the face of it at least, that moderation is a key part of any social medium.
I would also love it if we could prevent microblogs from federating to a magazine, as banning currently does nothing to prevent this issue and seems a bit counterintuitive. Similar to the concerns OP raised RE: commenting, this seems like it could be another vector for bad actors to attack from.
prevent microblogs from federating to a magazine
I didn't even know this was a thing, but definitely sounds like it needs looking in to as well.