Just reported some spam on [email protected] and noticed that I got it myself, as the sole admin of my private instance.
Would the mods of [email protected] and maybe even the admins on lemmy.ml have gotten the report as well or should I just ignore the report button and do what is necessary for my own instance?
A related question, as I’m working on testing on the source code now. Is there supposed to be a distinction when an admin removes a comment vs. a moderator removing a comment? The testing scripts spins up 5 federated servers, and at the start they all just get 1 login each - which is the admin themselves. When you test creating a community, then the instance it is created on the creator (the admin) becomes both a community moderator and admin for that specific community.
For the majority of communities, an ‘admin’ isn’t a mod, but they do have the ability to remove comments. But should a comment removal federate to all the subscribed instances of that community that it was removed. It makes a messy situation of expectations that a monolithic system like Reddit would be far more predictable to normal people about…
I don’t think there’s any difference. I’m a mod on some comms and if an instance admin removes a comment, everything looks the same way as when another mod does. I think admins just have mod privileges everywhere.
Deletion should federate either way too, regardless whether something is removed by the author, mod or admin.
Pretty big denial-of-service attack opportunity, a rogue instance could be setup, subscribe to community, and start admin-removing every comment.
Wait, right, I only considered admins of the instance where the community is.
A random admin can only affect their own instance.
Unless the user is also from the same instance as the random admin. In that case the admin can delete the user’s stuff from everywhere.
Ok now I think it makes sense, but I’m also a tad less sure :p
Ed: but technically there’s also an option for an instance to ignore deletion requests or do something else with them, or for federation to not work properly.