I only just learned today that, when someone from one instance gets banned from another instance, that person not only is no longer able to interact with the second instance, but people from the second instance actually can’t see anything the person said from the moment they got banned even though they’re still there. I’m disappointed to learn all my friends who got banned from my instance are still saying stuff and nobody told me, making it more akin to an instance forcing everyone to block them (because individuals blocking each other the same way work like this). And this is coming from the person who has fantasized about universalization of federation.

What’s something about the fediverse that was most recently unobscured but that you know now?

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    18 days ago

    you seem to be annoyed that a remote community can police itself.

    your local instance is using some other servers content, of course its going to adhere to the moderation of that remote instance (federated moderation).

    if you dont like the moderation of a remote community its your duty to make a new one somewhere else. this happens regularly when lemmy.world or .ml mods go overboard into fedora territory. if users agree, they will follow

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      18 days ago

      That’s not what I’m saying at all. I’m saying it would be best if content on remote instances wasn’t censored when viewed on a local instance, even if that user was banned locally.

      I think this problem is hard to get around though with how all content has to be hosted locally.

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            18 days ago

            youre upset that a remote instance can police its own content. but youre confused why your local copy of their data gets modded… you just dont like the fact that a community can police itself and that that moderation flows to remote copies of their community.

            if you really want to circumvent this, you would spin up your own instance and prevent federated moderation. but you have to admit that youre ignoring the wishes of that remote community to moderate their content.

            e. now that i think about it, if you get banned at the instance level, well, youre SOL. because they are rejecting you/your addition to their content.

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              18 days ago

              Please re read the original post and my comments. That’s not what I am saying.

              I’m saying that ideally moderation SHOULD be handled by the remote instance that hosts the community, and that the local instance should faithfully reflect it without censoring it.