I don’t think that’s correct. A while back I was banned en masse from the lemmy.ml communities I was subscribed to, but only those, and not the whole instance. I think that’s what happened here, though I don’t know what the admin tools look like.
The admin tools of Lemmy are frightfully primitive. Federated bans aren’t separated between local bans, so if you ban a person on your instance then they get temp banned on their home instance, when their home instance ban expires, their ban will disappear from your instance too.
If I remember correctly for a long time Lemmy didn’t even have an admin page or ability to view votes, you had to configure that all manually in the backend.
Nowadays we have pages to view votes on posts, and also an admin settings page for the local site settings and to manage bans, but that’s about it.
They recently made it so site bans would also add community bans since people can still participate in remote versions of the community without doing that, sometimes even having it federate. It’s a hack until site bans can be federated with remote versions of communities.
You can still participate in communities you were site banned from at least at the moment since they haven’t implemented that feature yet and the scripted bans only are enacted in communities you participated in prior to the site ban.
Yeah, site bans ≠ community bans. What Site bans do is to is stop federation requests to the instance you’re site banned from but they don’t stop you from participating in the community.
AFAIK an instance ban also bans you from every community on it that you have participated in, so that would be why it shows up like that.
I don’t think that’s correct. A while back I was banned en masse from the lemmy.ml communities I was subscribed to, but only those, and not the whole instance. I think that’s what happened here, though I don’t know what the admin tools look like.
The admin tools of Lemmy are frightfully primitive. Federated bans aren’t separated between local bans, so if you ban a person on your instance then they get temp banned on their home instance, when their home instance ban expires, their ban will disappear from your instance too. If I remember correctly for a long time Lemmy didn’t even have an admin page or ability to view votes, you had to configure that all manually in the backend.
Nowadays we have pages to view votes on posts, and also an admin settings page for the local site settings and to manage bans, but that’s about it.
They recently made it so site bans would also add community bans since people can still participate in remote versions of the community without doing that, sometimes even having it federate. It’s a hack until site bans can be federated with remote versions of communities.
Hmm. Well, when that happened to me, it was only a ban from those communities. I was still able to participate in others.
You can still participate in communities you were site banned from at least at the moment since they haven’t implemented that feature yet and the scripted bans only are enacted in communities you participated in prior to the site ban.
Okay, so it’s just that a “site ban” isn’t.
Yeah, site bans ≠ community bans. What Site bans do is to is stop federation requests to the instance you’re site banned from but they don’t stop you from participating in the community.