Submitted 18 hours ago by Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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It appears to only apply to my server, but it’s strange I can change stuff in a community that I don’t own. I spun up a PieFed server, federated with lemmy shitpost, and I can supposedly change members and mods.
The description seems to only apply to my instance, but I still find it weird you can view and “change” members.
You seem to be logged in as the admin so thats probably why. Pretty sure piefed is designed that way.
That’s odd. Also pixelfed lets you ban users who don’t even use your site too, which is even weirder.
Oh dont take me at my word though. Staff have accounts on @piefed.social if you want someone with actual knowledge and not from someone who has been to the codeberg once.
Yea there is a weird “de-sync” issue with appointing a mod [User B] from lemmy to community created by piefed then the mod can ban the original community creator [User A] but that only applies to User B’s instance, so now anyone on User B’s instance sees a different version of the community compared to everyone else. And anything User A does from that point will never federate to User B’s instance’s version of the same community. So you’d need to end up contacting the admins to intervene to resolve this “power struggle”.
Was hoping a raspberry pi would suffice for just my use, but it looks like I’m gonna need a better machine.
Python goes brrr… 🫠
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)
Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.