And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.
… And I realized I hadn’t been there for a week… And frankly didn’t miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I’m happy to be here. :)
That makes sense, but I think what Smoke assumes from the federated mod logs is that if Beehaw bans me (a remote user) from beehaw.org and the ban message federates over to my home instance feddit.dk and lemmy.ml, I will be banned from feddit.dk and lemmy.ml as well. While it’s unlikely that bans can federate between instances, I don’t have any proof of this.
Ban logs do federate but the effects aren’t in the way you describe. Otherwise, someone could just ban everyone over night by making their own little server, that’d be uh, quite chaotic to say the least? Thankfully, this is not how bans work through federation.
I can just envision the havoc that would ensue if someone could ban you from the instance you’re the admin of.
It’s probably up to the community admins to ignore or take external bans into consideration; like different countries and Interpol
If you have low resources you could copy ban lists to keep spam out (though that could be used to attack random users , though big communities’ ban lists may have more reputation - like beehaw is a big established community ~ ?