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Weird Federation Question with Banned user. (hackertalks.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So we have A (aussie.zone) H (hackertalks.com) S (slrpnk.net) and D (dubvee.org)

UserS is banned from dubvee.org but not the community
UserS respond to a post from H, and H and A see this comment
D does not see UserS's comment (makes sense, since they were banned).
S has no community subscribers
S does not see H, or A's response to UserS's comment

2 - Why does A see UserS's comment at all?
3 - Why doesn't S see A's response, or H's response to the comment? No local subscribers?

exact post details

https://aussie.zone/post/21517299

https://hackertalks.com/post/11881040

however on dubvee...

https://lemmy.dubvee.org/post/3575707

neither of our posts made it back to S.

And on slrpnk.net neither of our comments made it.... https://slrpnk.net/post/23201137

I think because UserS was banned from dubvee.org https://lemmy.dubvee.org/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=6263415

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'm also curious as to how an instance banned person was able to comment on a post to a community in that instance? Could they have done so innocently?

I also can't see any of the comments from lemm.ee. I presume dubvee isn't federating any of this out as the user is banned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

instance banned person was able to comment on a post to a community in that instance?

Oh yeah, this is expected behavior. A bans U on instance B without a community ban. U can still post and vote on their instance B, but none of that content will federate to A.

However, other instances C D E wont see any of U's content, because A isn't forwarding it... unless U is responding to content from a user on a different instance, then B will federate the content to the content creators instance (which doesn't drop it) and A which will drop it.

Basically, what this means is things get kinda weird when a user is only instance banned but not community banned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Should I ban them now to stop them wasting their and our time further to no useful effect at all? I think I shall since they couldn't have seen my warning anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I'd wait at least 24h so people can look at the state of things and maybe provide some understanding on why UserS's post federated to A at all. That still surprises me.