Hi,
My instance has been running for a day or so. In that time, three users have randomly shown up on my admin panel as Banned. There are no pending applications. What exactly are those users doing?
My first instinct was it was an issue with emails and signup as I didn’t have email working properly at first, so I unbanned all three users. 🤷♂️
Was that a mistake? What does it mean? What could be causing it?
You can check the modlog (at the bottom of the UI you’ll finde the link), most probably those were banned in another instance.
It is weird they show up in our own instances as banned, not sure what happens when you unban them.
Yeah, I don’t know either, but I “re-banned” them on my instance with a comment of why they were previously banned and by who.
I would think that even if the ban audit log shows up on our individual instances, we would not be able to unban them on the other instance as we aren’t admins there. I also don’t think the ban on one instance would carry over to other instances, but I don’t know enough about lemmy to know for sure.
This feels like a display bug in the lemmy-ui, where it’s showing the audit / ban log for all instances as if they were on your instance.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2961
There’s an issue already in place for this, but the Devs are currently focussed on finishing up a big rework of how the UI is implemented to help with load issues, so I wouldn’t expect it to change straight away.
That is good to hear, because the observed behavior does feel like a bug.