I saw that a user was banned by moderator on my instance and their comments removed. I don’t have a moderator, it’s just me, I’m the only user. I thought I accidently fumble fingrred the ban button and restored their comments and appologize. Come to find out that they were banned from their own instance.
I’m not sure how I feel about that. On one hand it’s good if it’s a really bad user posting spam or worse. On the other hand it is a conduit for censorship. If an admin doesn’t like what you post on another instance, then they can censor you everywhere. On top of that, it makes it look like I am banning people, and I don’t like that at all if they’re just making normal comments. It should say something else and I should get some kind of alert that lets me know so that I can decide if the comments on my instance are appropriate.
I’m not quite clear all the details but lemmy.ml is quite prone to banning people there for activities outside of their house.
If they where a .ml user and came onto your instance saying Russia/China/NK are bad that could get them the boot on .ml if they find out about it.
I own !dullsters@dullsters.net and mod !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world so that wouldn’t be allowed.
Or maybe something somewhere else, wouldn’t matter, if the user is canned from their home instance then they no longer exist to show up on your comm.