There is a big fucking bug in Mastodon's moderation features.
When I as a moderator suspend a remote account...
Expected behavior: The account can no longer be found or interacted with on our server and the account can't find or interact with accounts on our server.
Actual behavior: the account can still be found but is empty. there is a notice that the account is suspended and there is even still a follow button - it just doesn't do anything.
And the account can still see everything from our instance and interact with our posts. 🤯 Our users just won't reciprocate the interaction, because the reply won't appear here.
But if someone else replies to a reply from the suspended account we'll see that reply, but won't know what original post it belongs to.
Is this a new bug with Mastodon 4.3 or has it always been like that?
I've been moderating for 5 years now and this is new to me.
I'm not going to create an account on Microsoft️ Github to officially file this bug report, but can someone tell me if it's already reported and what's the status? Thanks.
Additional ideal expected behavior: Previous replies to any of our posts by the suspended account won't be seen by anyone anywhere on the Fediverse - or at least not as replies to our posts, because our instance notifies/federates all other instances that these replies shouldn't be there.
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