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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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[–] PriorProject@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

  • Mods of other instances to see if they take appropriate action on reports.
  • Admins of other instances to see if they take action against bad-faith mods.
  • Admins of other instances who generate a disproportionate number of reports per capita, to address structural, cultural, or policy issues that lead the offending instance to be a bigger source of pain/reports than others.

And finally they can defederate if they don't like what they find.