Hi,

My instance has been running for a day or so. In that time, three users have randomly shown up on my admin panel as Banned. There are no pending applications. What exactly are those users doing?

My first instinct was it was an issue with emails and signup as I didn’t have email working properly at first, so I unbanned all three users. 🤷‍♂️

Was that a mistake? What does it mean? What could be causing it?

  • SlashzeroOP
    2•1 year ago

    Yes, I see that now! Interesting, that is really cool actually that the ban action is federated! So, if a user is banned on one instance, they are banned everywhere?

    I guess I should re-ban the 3 I unbanned?

    • Geronimo Wenja
      4•1 year ago

      The ban will only federate out if they’re banned from the instance they registered on - their home instance.

      i.e. if badfaith@lemmy.ml is banned from beehaw.org, nothing would propogate out because they’re just banned from that instance.

      However, if badfaith@lemmy.ml was banned from lemmy.ml, they can’t log in anymore - they’ve been banned from their home instance, so they can’t interact with any communities.

      Unbanning them from your instance won’t make a difference either way. Because they can’t log in to their own instance, your unbanning will have no effect.