I started to notice that I have multiple banned users on my instance, even though I have never banned anyone. And that number is increasing.
I was wondering the same thing. Also I show 11 comments here, but I can’t see any of them.
I can see 34, yet can’t see them.
great explanation by @NettoHikari@social.fossware.space bellow. And I also see much higher number of comments then I really have.
Well I can’t seem to find his comment. Look at his profile page and it’s not showing up, I tried to reopen this thread and it shows 32 comments. But mine and yours are the only one showing up.
Likewise!
https://social.fossware.space/comment/483168
How about through this link?
No there’s something different than that going on. This replies in my inbox, but when I go back to the thread it’s not there. I can’t see any comments except for the one I replied to, and my own.
Those aren’t band accounts making comments. Unless you’re trying to tell me my account is banned? I don’t know why my account would be banned here.
I’ve no idea how to tell if your account is banned, so no, I wasn’t trying to tell you that. But sorry, no idea what is going on on your side.
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Well, I’m not really sure about the comment numbers, etc. I saw a pull request solving negative comments in communities, though. So I guess it’s still being worked on.
You can tag other users with @username@instance.tld when using the official web UI. I don’t know about 3rd party clients, though.
I’m on the official UI now, but still it doesn’t show link or anything.
@NettoHikari@social.fossware.space
Works now 😀 Doesn’t work with copy paste though.
Yes, you’ll have to type it out. There’s also some kind of intelli-sense thing going on with a popup menu for auto completion.
Yeah, I’m always up for some solid intelli-sense.
Did your instance suffer from yesterday’s script kiddie hack?
Not sure, but the users were being added immediately after I created the instance. Which is about a week ago.
You mean in the admin interface? That’s normal. User’s banned on OTHER instances will appear there.
I see, does it means that they are also banned from my instance? Or how do I read it?
No, they aren’t, because accounts aren’t federated. They’re effectively banned from the fediverse, though, since once an account is banned, that very account can’t be used to access the fediverse any more. Nothing hinders them to recreate the same accounts on other instaces.
I think, this is really misleading and also UI / UX wise pretty bad, as it clogs up the entire admin panel.
I see, since they’re banned on their instance, that means they cannot access their account and then even the fediverse. Alright, thank you for the explanation. Helped me a lot.
You’re welcome! Btw, I love Kofola. 😁 (Just had to think about that, because Czech Republic)
I appreciate that the first thing that came to your mind was Kofola, and not beer 😀
Wait, isn’t a ban just for one instance? You say it’s not federated, so…?
I mean, if any ban was network-wide, it means a malicious instance can start banning anyone for no reason, and prevent those users from interacting at all?
Also aren’t instances supposed to have their own rules?
No. What I’m talking about is:
- You register an account “WhoRoger” on “lemmy.world”
- You’re banned from lemmy.world
- Ban appears everywhere (don’t really know why)
- You can’t use WhoRoger@lemmy.world anywhere any more
- But you can register “WhoRoger” on any other instance and use that again
Ok but what if I get a ban on lemmy.xyz, will that affect other instances?
Cause I think that’s what OP is talking about, that their users got banned on other instances, not their home one.
Bans made on a user’s home instance propagate across the Fediverse.
