Dr. Jenkem

You can self host gitea and begin mirroring the Lemmy repos yourself right now.

And I’d like to thank you for your hard work. Voyager has been my main client since before it was called Voyager!

Exactly. That’s why I don’t enable email notifications on my phone, and I won’t see your 4am email until I roll into the office at 9:15am.

Pretty sure that version is vulnerable to some xss stuff though. Possible the admin’s creds were compromised.

Will do. By the way, thanks for all the hard work you’ve put into Lemmy comrade!

I bet other users who aren’t admins/mods can’t see the post at all when it’s removed.

Yup, I’m pretty sure that’s how this works. I opened the post in an incognito window, but still on my instance, and got an error message instead of the post.

Ahh, I’m actually guessing it’s because you purged it. I think purges are local, but deleting it is considered a moderation action and is therefore propagated out. I just checked the modlog and clicked on a random post that was removed on a different instance. When I went to the post, I could still see it, but there was a notification at the top that said “Removed by Moderator”.

Glad we got to the bottom of this! And yeah, just to confirm, I see no changes on my side.

However, I’m surprised to still see my posts there. I would have thought you deleting them on your instance would propagate out to my instance.

Still not seeing it.

My guess is that actually the report doesn’t get federated back out. I think reports are only federated to the instance that hosts the content and the instance the reporter belongs to. So in this case, lemmy.ninja is both the instance that hosts the content and the instance to which you belong to.

In the opposite direction, when I reported the first post, it went to my instance since I am the reporter. And to your instance, since your instance hosts the content.

Assuming I am correct, this could end up being a bit of a problem. That means, users on my instance could go about spamming the fediverse, and I would never see reports of their activity unless they are spamming communities on my instance. The only way I have to know that they’re being bad users is if I notice we get defederated or if an admin of another instance specifically reaches out to me.

At a minimum, I would like to be able to click on a user’s name, and be able to report them to their home instance.

Not seeing a report on the second test post yet.

Ok, I have marked my report as resolved on my instance and took no action (so I have left the post up on my instance).

I have just made a 2nd post. I have not reported it.

Sure! I just posted and reported it. Let me know if you see the report in your moderation queue.

I’m actually not clear on how the reports work, but my assumption is that they go to both the instance you’re reporting from and to the instance that hosts the content. I would also assume that the resolve status is local to each instance so it shouldn’t matter when/if you click the resolve button.

But these are all assumptions, I don’t actually know how the reports work.

As far as I understand it, the instance that hosts the user and the content is the only instance that can propagate deletions of the content/user. So if that user’s home instance bans them, then the ban propagates. Otherwise, the ban is only local.