Report Function?
I'm a little confused as to how the "report" function works. I'm an instance admin, but if I report a post on another instance, that report shows up in MY report queue. If I mark that report as "resolved" to get rid of the notification count, does it resolve it on the home instance?
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I think the report is sent to the admins of the instance you're logged into. Basically, you're reporting to yourself
That seems like a bad design? Why wouldn't it go to the mods of the community the post is in?
Oh. So how would I report it to the community mods?
EDIT: This is wrong, see OP's comment with the right answer
Not an expert, those who know more please correct me.
I will explain what I understand with an example; let's say I want to report your comment (the one I'm replying to).
Because I'm reading it from https://lemm.ee/post/3809349 , if I report it here, I would be reporting it to lemm.ee admins. Now I need to decide if I want to report it to:
or
Then, because there is no way to "translate" a post / comment link from one instance to another, I need to go to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml through the instance I want to report it. Let's say tkohhh.social
So I go to: https://tkohhh.social/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and log in
Then I look for the post: https://tkohhh.social/post/10726
And if I report it there, the report should be sent to tkohhh.social's admins.
Note that (if this is correct) it requires an account on the instance you want to report to... which is why I did an unofficial report when I found a spammer on another instance, using the Meta community of that instance:
Interesting!
If this is true, what is the admin of the reporting user even supposed to do? Surely I'm not expected (or even able?) to go Bigfoot on somebody else's community because one of my users reported some content over there. I feel like I must be missing something.
You can have a look at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html to see a table with the different actions and the role required, as well as some explanation of how it works.
Personally, I received reports as a non-admin mod for a community from users from other instances, so that should be possible
What I don't see is how it works accross instances. If we were talking about a single instance, then everything is very easy.
But, I have some questions:
... which I don't expect you to answer :)
I have 0 experience with the admin side of Lemmy, so I don't know what actions an Admin can take over a user from another instance. If I had to guess:
But again, not an expert, so I don't really know what is the intended way to handle this.
As I linked in the other comment, https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html can help
If this is true, what is the admin of the reporting user even supposed to do
Decide what instances to defederate. They can check up on:
And finally they can defederate if they don't like what they find.