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Are bans propagated to other sites? (lemmy.ninja)

submitted 1 year ago by RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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This morning I was forced to ban about 18 users for being obvious spambots. That deleted their content on my instance. Are they now banned on other instances, too? I'm just trying to figure out what the best process is for eliminating these spambots for good before they flood all of our feeds.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As I understand it, the account is registered on a given instance, and then that account interacts with other instances via the instance theyre registered on.

They cannot log into another instance with the same details (they need to create an account on each instance).

IE, to interact with you on .ml i’m logged into .world. The instances are federated so I see your post on this .ml community on .world

If I was banned from .world I can’t access the instance and thus any .ml because my interaction is via world instance. I can’t use the same account to log onto ml, I would need to make a new account there