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How does moderation of defederated communities work? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by DaughterOfMars@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I still see posts from other instances on beehaw communities, and it makes me wonder: If those posts can't be seen by the mods, then is there simply no moderation possible for them (other than the instance owner, I guess)?

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[–] LambentMote 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much except you should stop seeing any new content or posts from the defederated community. Old threads will still exist and effectively be unmoderated, but the comments there will only exist on your server. Any federated server will see the 'true' thread from the original instance.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, but instance B has many users, and they can all now use B's view of C@A as an unmoderated forum to post Evil Stuff. No moderator on B can do anything about that; the B admin can maybe only just ban those users?

This is kind of analogous to the problem on IRC of who gets ops on a channel in a netsplit. Currently the "split" of A defederating from B causes B's view of C@A to have no ops. (At least, if I'm understanding correctly.)