GuyDudeman

So there's no way to delete a comment you make, across the board? There will always be a copy of it somewhere?

Great idea, but then I'd have to get into the whole hosting thing and all of that which I don't want to do.

I’m not clear on how that works. Are you saying that each Lemmy instance hosts the content from every other Lemmy instance?

I still don’t quite understand how the community is replicated…

Are you saying that if Lemmy.ml/tiki exists and someone creates Beehaw.org/tiki that they are the same community? They would show the same posts and comments?

Or are they completely separate communities that would just have the same name… users could subscribe to both if they wanted, but the posts and comments would be stuck on their respective instances?

Or - Is it the case that Lemmy.ml’s tiki community and posts and comments are also stored on Beehaw.org somehow?

If I deleted the tiki community on Lemmy.ml, would users from both communities lose their posts and comments from the Lemmy.ml instance of that community?

That needs to be made more clear, in my opinion.

Also, how does a ban work in that case?

If you’re signed into an account on Instance A and subscribed to a community on Instance B, and the Instance B admins ban you… Couldn’t you just sign up for a new account on Instance B or Instance C and rejoin/participate in the Instance B community again?

Also, if the Instance A admins ban your Instance A account from their entire instance, couldn’t you just login to your Instance B account and join all of Instance A’s communities?

For instance, if LemmyGrad banned my LemmyGrad account for being a “lib”… couldn’t I just use my Beehaw or Lemmy.ml account to participate in the LemmyGrad communities? Would this force them to detect/ban me twice?

Seems like admins/mods of Lemmy instances and communities are going to have to be doing a multitude more work than the Reddit admins/mods.

And they’ll have to also be detectives, to suss-out whether or not a user is someone who has previously been banned from their community.

Once this gets going with bots and whatnot, the federated system seems to be a bit of a spaghetti nightmare.