Edit:

I reached out to Lemmy World admins (!lwadmin) and they said:

If a user is banned on their home instance then it federates to others, if banned on instances other than their home, it doesn’t

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    1 year ago

    I am not an expert, only a user, so take my remark with a grain of salt.

    To my knowledge a banned account is only banned on the instance that bans the account. Federated instances would not automatically ban the account unless they have a bot or some similar function specifically for that.

    Obviously, automatic federated banning would be a huge, massive problem for Lemmy. If a small, tiny instance decided to start banning accounts for whatever reason, the accounts being automatically banned on all federated instances would be a major design flaw since instances start off as automatically federated.