I haven’t banned anyone, and as far as I know none of the other users on my instance currently have moderation privileges. So why am I seeing two users in a “banned” list when I visit my instance settings page? What horrible, unforgivable things did these users have to do for my instance to ban them seemingly of its own accord…?

(I have manually unbanned these users since taking the screenshot, since I didn’t see any reason why they should have been banned in the first place.)

  • pineappleOPEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    It seems like if a user gets banned on their own instance, they show up on this list for everyone (I also see them on my ban list here), so unbanning them on your end probably does nothing.

    Seems like just a bug, I think this list should only show local users who are banned, and instead it shows every ban it knows about across the fediverse.

    I mean, the users have remained unbanned, at least as far as my own instance’s settings go. The list is empty since I unbanned each user after a look at their seemingly benign history. But I guess that if they are banned on the instance they registered on, then they probably aren’t able to interact with any federated instances in any case?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 months ago

      Right, it doesn’t really matter if you unban them if their home instance is the one that banned them in the first place 👍