Modlog, which includes a site ban—something only admins can do.
The community bans also include communities that aren’t moderated by any instance admins, and some that are only moderated by a single person who likely isn’t aware of actions taken under their community’s name.
FYI, any site bans will also automatically generate community bans for all local communities that user has ever interacted with.
It’s simply the current behavior for site bans and not an admin going through communities to ban that user.
That doesn’t mean the site ban is legitimate, just that the community-bans are inherent to any site-bans.
Yeah this is becoming a real problem with tech communities being hosted on .ml which is way to sensitive about anything remotely close to common sense. I’m very careful not to post anything political on .ml and I’m 100% threading on a knifes edge if I ever say or post anything regarding news or politics there. I will get site banned for sure.
instances apart from national ones should be more specialized to avoid this.
That’s kind of a weird way of doing it, but good to know thanks!
Honestly it’s not really a good way of doing it in my opinion, seems like it could potentially spam a lot of ban messages if a user interacted with a lot of communities. Would be better if they worked on federating site bans with every community, and also federating the message in the global modlog instead of
mod banned userdomod banned user from lemmy.domain.tldor whatever the instance domain is. That way information is still communicated and you don’t get problems with them being able to interact in communities on a server they were banned from. All while not spamming the modlog.Yea I’m not saying it’s a great way to do this, but that’s the lemmy way right now.
I think it is meant as a workaround, maybe someone implements something better eventually.
I’m hoping they implement federation of site bans, I’ve seen a lot of people banned from the site the community is hosted on still replying and pushing their disgusting rhetoric in comments of posts and it still continues to be federated because they don’t get blocked from those communities from a site ban.
Home bans federate everywhere.
Remote bans don’t, which makes sense, because otherwise lemmygrad could ban your sjw account which makes no sense.
That’s kinda how they go to the workaround of banning from every community in that instance.
But then .world is still running an old version that doesn’t do that anyway
Yeah that’s true. I meant more that they’d carry a copy of the site ban record in all the communities hosted by that instance and federate that even when you’re a remote user, it would treat it the same as a community ban from all communities on that instance but only be a single entry and most importantly would apply to every community on that instance.
The way they do it now is great but as it is the flaw is that they can participate in communities they never participated in before, which can be taken advantage of by malicious users in the same way as the old method where they weren’t given community bans at all.