Why am I able to edit communities that don't belong to me?
from Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2026 01:24
https://lemmy.world/post/43113117
from Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2026 01:24
https://lemmy.world/post/43113117
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.
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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.
Why would that be weird? I assume that's about banning federated posts from them, which makes perfect sense imo.
Maybe settings to delete stuff you don’t want, or ban whatever federated stuff, but transferring ownership settings is a bit odd to me. Lemmy is a bit more clear on what you can truly do. You can block communities, delete posts, purge, ban, whatever. It does not allow you to edit communities directly unlike PieFed which is kinda interesting.
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”.
omfg the email field is REQUIRED if I wanna update the front page<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ad99c8f2-264b-439a-be66-08a5006b524e.png">
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… 🫠
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.
Also, if your the admin I would make a normal user for everyday use. If your admin account is compromised, you would loose access to your instance
What? That really doesn’t make much sense, the admin has direct access to the server and reset the password of any account, including their own admin account and any alternate account they use.
I have 2 accounts on my instance, this account and the admin.
I use this account as my daily driver and get an email if there is a sign up request
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/65f11e1e-a507-4ffd-8aeb-cc2bd90346b2.png"> A man tends to make his own hell.