A thought about federation

There's been discussion of federation with Lemmygrad. I think this is probably a good call. I just want to know how the anti-sectarian rule would be enforced. Like, it someone makes an anti-anarchist post on lemmygrad.ml and it shows up on hexbear.net, would the moderators hide the comment on our end but not on Lemmygrad? Would repeat offenders be banned from hexbear.net even though they made the comment on a different iteration?

Same for one of the bigger anarchist instances like lemmy.blahaj.zone which has good leftist and trans content but also has regular struggle sessions about "tankies." It seems like federation with then would be a boon for both sites, but moderating the left unity rule would be a nightmare.

Also, another thought: would downbears from other instances carry over here?

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We've federated Lemmygrad with other instances for over 3 years now, and essentially our way to go about it is to only moderate what happens on our instance or from one of our user.
If hexbear removes a post that's on lemmygrad for example, it will only be removed for Hexbear. The post will still remain up on lemmygrad and will still federate with other instances.
If you ban someone from lemmygrad on hexbear, they will only be banned for hexbear and cannot interact on your instance anymore.
But the way reports are made is they're sent to every relevant mod/admin. If someone from Lemmy world posts on lemmy ml, and a lemmygradian makes the report, all three admin teams will receive it. We just take a second to see which instance the report is made on, and which instance the reported user is from, and then mark it as solved because we don't have the inclination to moderate what happens on other instances. We figure it's the "price" of federation, if you hop on to All then you're gonna see libreddit stuff.
It's a system that works for us, it might not be perfect but so far we haven't received any complaints.
- if you hop on to All then you're gonna see libreddit stuff
  suggest making the default user settings "Subscribed". would also help with people accidentally breaking sub rules
  
  Or perhaps a "local - all" would be good
- But the way reports are made is they're sent to every relevant mod/admin. If someone from Lemmy world posts on lemmy ml, and a lemmygradian makes the report, all three admin teams will receive it.
  The reporters admins/mods can't actually moderate though right?
  Like some beehawite reporting a Hexbear post doesn't let beehawite mess with our stuff right?
  
  They can remove the post, but it would only remove it for people browsing from beehaw. Every other instance would still see the post.
  
  Ah, okay that makes sense. Thank you!

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