As a new reddit exile, I may be misunderstanding this.
In theory something like a !gaming community could crop up on multiple large instances, especially during the mass exodus while instances are getting hammered with spikes in volume.
If that’s the case, we’ll have fragmented communities across instances. Is there any way besides subscribing to each of them to combine them into a sort of multi-reddit type aggregation? Or is this considered a temporary (albeit important to adoption) problem during the crazy stages?
Huh, you can? I’ve been told that bans are federated, so if you’re banned on one lemmy instance, you are also automatically banned across all connected instances.
If you’re banned by an admin on your login Lemmy server, then that account is basically done for and you’d need to create another account on that server or on another server. However, by default I believe server bans are temporary, usually only for a few days.
But if you’ve been banned from a community (a sub) by a mod, that ban is only in effect for that community on that server. Nothing is stopping you from participating in any other community on any other Lemmy server.
Thank you for the clarification!
And what happens if an admin of a non-login server bans a user? Is that just a ban across all communities of that specific server?
I would assume so. The ban wouldn’t affect anything beyond their own server.
I’m as new as the next guy, but that certainly doesn’t mesh with my understanding of federation at all. Per my understanding, communities are completely unrelated across instances. AITA on lemmy.world can be run by UserA and have SetofrulesA with BanlistA, while AITA on lemmy.ml can be run by UserB with SoR-B and BL-B. AFAIK It’s the entire point of federation, that if I don’t like how AITA on lemmy.whatevs is run I can spin up my own and go on my merry way.
Perhaps someone more in the know will turn up but I believe that you were told wrong.
I don’t think that’s accurate.