Because that’s the Admin of lemmy.blahaj.zone. Probably doing Admin stuff like cleaning up, enforcing instance rules… Doing the instance-wide userbans. Other instances have some Automod bot for that. In this case it seems to be done from the Admin account. And that’s most of the rows in your screenshot.
What you’re seeing are instance bans.
She’s the blahaj.zone admin, so they were probably violating instance rules
Typically, if you see that one person is being banned from a bunch of communities at the same time, it just means that they are being banned from the instance.
If an admin wants to ban one of their own users, it’s a single activity that’s federated out, but if they want to ban a remote user, the only way it can be done under the current system is for every community that the banned person has interacted with to ban them. It’s an automatic process, triggered by the admin pressing one button once. (it’s not a perfect solution, because nothing prevents the banned user interacting with other communities, at least as far as their local instance is concerned).
That’s not quite correct. An instance ban works just fine without corresponding community bans. What didn’t work, was content removal. An instance ban issued with removal of all content posted by a user used to just remove content locally without federating the removal.
To get around it, instance bans now issue community bans too, so that content removal federates. However they still create community bans it even when content removal isn’t selected during the instance ban.
Instance bans automatically issue community bans to all local communities a user has been active in
She’s the instance admin. Technically, she moderates everything site wide.
