I'm the mod for @food, and we've had a spam problem. New spam accounts are created daily, and I ban them and delete their posts daily. But, users from other instances have informed me that some of the posts are still showing on those instances, even ones that were deleted more than a week ago on kbin.
As an example, there are spam posts up at https://lemm.ee/c/food@kbin.social that are not visible on kbin, such as those by users veteya and magdor. I specifically recall removing those posts from kbin.
A clue as to what is going wrong may be in the moderation log for @food. Even though posts by those users were deleted, the deletions do not show up in the moderation log. Supporting this theory, for any post I've checked that shows as deleted in the moderation log, I do not see that post on lemm.ee.
I also recall a few times (maybe with those posts) where I deleted a post and was met with an error screen after the fact. But, the posts were gone when I checked, so I didn't think anything of it.
Is there any way for me to force these old deletions to propagate across the fediverse? And, is there anything I need to do differently to ensure future deletions propagate?
This is a known issue and needs to be fixed at code level.
Bummer. Thanks for the link, though! I'll keep an eye on the issue.
In the meantime, do you know whether it would work for me to add a federated user as a moderator? Or, for their instance owner to allow them to moderate a federated community?
I'm not sure how the technical aspects work here. I know it's not a desirable solution, but a band-aid would be nice for the users from federated instances.
I don't think it works that way.
Fair enough. Thanks again