It's similar to reddit. There are mods for each community, then admins for the site.
Each instance has admins and communities on those instances have mods, but they can also make someone a mod or admin from another instance.
So if I understand correctly then, if a mod from here flags this comment as being in violation, and deletes it:
All other instances have to download that decision and delete the comment from their own servers? That seems like a looot of data transfer
The documentation will be better at explaining than I am. It's short and to the point https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html
Instead each instance is responsible to create and enforce its own moderation policy. This means that two Lemmy instances can have rules that completely disagree or even contradict. This can lead to problems if they interact with each other, because by default federation is open to any instance that speaks the same protocol. To handle such cases, administrators can choose to block federation with specific instances. To be even safer, they can also choose to be federated only with instances that are allowed explicitly.
This is really what I'm not quite getting though. I understand (I think) how defederation works at a server (instance) level, but assume I call you a slur here.
The way that ☝️ is written implies that a moderator from each instance that federates with this one will need to moderate this comment separately... Which seems wasteful
My understanding is that if you use a slur, its first up to the moderators of this community or admins of this instance to moderate it.
If they'd like to but are overwhelmed, they can invite moderators and admins from other instances to have moderator privileges.
But if this instance fails to act, other instances can essentially block this community.
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