Hence why he’s saying he was “fake banned”. If I go to his profile on the instances he’s banned from, there’s a red “banned” icon next to his username. He was perma banned from the instances and perma banned in the communities of those instances he commented in (modlog shows he was perma banned from a bunch of communities all at once). But he can still comment in communities belonging to the instances he’s banned from, ones he never commented in before.
Does this mean fake bans on Lemmy are a thing? Or are we both misunderstanding something here?
Just in case it’s relevant, he’s banned from dbzer0, lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and sh.itjust.works
Put simply, Lets say hypothetically he’s like you on lemmy.cafe.
and we’ll say he’s posting to to lemmy.world/c/memes which he was banned from.
His post will show up to lemmy.cafe users connected to memes… but his posts will only show up on the lemmy.cafe version of memes. When cafe federates back to world, world will just ignore the posts and not share them.
In addition they won’t be seen by, lets say programming.dev here, while it hasn’t banned this person, it’s looking to world for it’s copy of the community, which will not have your friends posts.
That seems like it could cause issues with moderation. If they start posting spam in the community, how is it dealt with for the sake of lemmy.cafe users?
I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485
to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.
Interesting.
So posts and comments from a remote instance first go to the communiy’s home instance, before they are then further propagated out to other remote instances?
And that’s where this filtering of banned users would happen?
Also, if your instance admins banned a mod from your instance, their mod actions wouldn’t be shown to your instance. So, a mod could remove your comment, or ban you from a community, and you wouldn’t notice it on your instance’s local copy, but your comments would never show up to the community (only users on your instance will see it).
That’s my understanding of it, I’m not an expert so… I’m only giving 70% confidence in my answer.