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

Let me see if I understand this correctly:

If there's community C from instance A, and it's visible to instance B, then there's a "view" of C@A that B users can see. We can say that B "sees" C@A; when B users "look for" C@A they see this view of it.

So long as A and B federate, those stay in sync, and the moderators of C@A can control what B users see when they look for C@A.

But if A and B stop federating, then the view of C@A from B becomes decoupled from the view of C@A from A.

And this stops the A moderators from having any effect on posts to (the B view of) C@A from B.

Users on B still see C@A, but their view is onto an unmoderated C@A that only contains traffic from B.

So, any community that is seen and then defederated, becomes an unmoderated space on the seeing instance.

Am I missing something? That seems like a pretty bad bug.