The nature of federation means that even if you never post anything to my instance, your garbage may still be visible to my people via tangential interactions on shared linked instances. Bans solve this on the local instance level and are by far the easiest way to accomplish this.
(To be clear, the “you” in this is not referring to you specifically OP, it’s a general term)
Yes, and it is up to those users to decide that by themselves.
Your job is to keep your instance clean, and defederate when your users want to. Not to police other instances and force them to do your bidding. You have no authority there. It is up to those instance mods.
Aye. Also bans happen on and by every instance/community with a mod team that isnt worthless. Sometimes you just need to ban people.
It’s one thing to ban someone for posts and content on the instance itself
It’s very modern-Reddit like to ban someone who never posted anything on your instance’s communities
The nature of federation means that even if you never post anything to my instance, your garbage may still be visible to my people via tangential interactions on shared linked instances. Bans solve this on the local instance level and are by far the easiest way to accomplish this.
(To be clear, the “you” in this is not referring to you specifically OP, it’s a general term)
Yes, and it is up to those users to decide that by themselves.
Your job is to keep your instance clean, and defederate when your users want to. Not to police other instances and force them to do your bidding. You have no authority there. It is up to those instance mods.