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What does "ban" mean if I'm posting to another instance? (I'm using photon) (redlemmy.com)

submitted 1 day ago by stinky@redlemmy.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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As the owner of Redlemmy.com, I create a post in a community on Lemmy.world.
Bob responds to my post
In that post I see mod actions, "ban from community (instance only)" - does that mean he's banned from a community on redlemmy.com, or lemmy.world?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Think of it this way. All bans and content removals are local only, and don't federate to other instances, with a few exceptions

The most notable of these exceptions are

i) a community moderator removing content or banning a user from their community. This federates. An instance admin doing the same thing does not federate, unless the community was created on their instance.

ii) an instance admin banning a user based on their instance, and choosing to remove all of their content. This will federate the ban and the content removal to other instances.