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Moderation
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As a server admin, you have both identity-level and server-level moderation
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options at your disposal.
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Identities
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Identities, known as Accounts in Mastodon, have their own handle
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(like ``@takahe@jointakahe.org``), and are generally what people think of as
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"users".
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Takahē distinguishes between the two - for us, a User is a set of login
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credentials, while an Identity is the public-facing identity people use to
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post. A user can have multiple identities, and an identity can be shared
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across multiple users (for example, a brand account that five people can
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post from).
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You can moderate both local and remote identities, but bear in mind that any
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moderation actions on *remote identities* are local to your server only;
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they will not propagate over to other servers.
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Identity moderation actions are available in the "Identities" admin area.
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Limiting
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Limiting an identity prevents its posts from appearing in the Public and
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Federated timelines; they will, however, still appear in the timelines of
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people who follow them, be able to notify other people via mentions, and their
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replies will appear in conversation threads.
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You can limit both local and remote identities. Limiting is reversible,
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and encouraged as a way to remove some visibility if you don't want a full block.
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Blocking
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Blocking an identity erases its existence from your server. Its posts will
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not appear anywhere, no mentions from it will come through, and Takahē will
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actively discard all incoming information from it as soon as it is received.
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If you block a local identity, you are freezing the account and erasing it
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from the Fediverse. Takahē will still accept inbound notifications for it,
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but if any servers ask if it exists, it will deny its existence. Users trying
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to log into that identity will be denied access.
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If you block a remote identity, you are almost erasing it from existence
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from your server's users. Users will not be able to follow it or see posts
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from it; they will, however, be able to mention it in outgoing posts.
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Blocking is reversible; however, you will lose data intended for the account
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for the duration it is blocked for. If you leave a local account blocked for
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too long, other servers will decide it has totally vanished and stop their
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users following it.
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Servers
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If your problem is not with an individual identity/account but with an entire
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server - be it very poorly run or actively malicious - you can instead
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choose to block the entire server ("defederate").
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This is accomplished via the "Federation" admin area. Search and select the
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domain you want, and then set it to blocked.
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While a domain is blocked, Takahē will actively drop all inbound messages
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from it. Blocking is reversible, but you will lose all inbound data from the
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server during the blocking period.
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Defederating from Takahē
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Takahē is unusual in the Fediverse in that it's possible to have it claim to be
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multiple different domains at once; this extends to the way it speaks to
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other servers, and means you cannot easily block an entire Takahē installation at once.
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If you wish to block a Takahē server, either from Takahē or any other Fediverse
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server that supports defederation, you may choose to either block a single
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domain as normal, or you may want to block the entire server.
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Takahē sends all actor messages from identities based on the domain they are
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part of, but uses a single System Actor for all GET requests to retrieve
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identity and post information. To properly defederate a Takahē server, you
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need to:
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* Block all domains you know it has identities on
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* Block the domain of the System Actor (visible at the ``/actor/`` URL)
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If you are having trouble blocking a Takahē server due to this, we apologise;
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this is the nature of the underlying protocol. If you find a server that breaks
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our `Code of Conduct <https://jointakahe.org/conduct/>`_, please let us know
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at conduct@jointakahe.org and we will do our best to not give them any support.
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