To be fair it may seem a bit silly, but it does bring to the forefront some potential legal issues with federation.

They may not be a lemmy.world user, but the posts and comments they make on the lemmy.world instance are obviously being federated on to lemmy.world servers. Also to be fair, it’s something the admins at .world did say they’re talking about.

I think it will probably unfortunately take a long time for sag here to get a real answer or update about this. I doubt this is the kind of thing the admins resolve in a day.

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https://lemmy.world/comment/15591203

Hey, I’m the one that decided to ban this user. I understand the frustration, but it is very much in the TOS of lemmy.world and has been for a long time.

We are having an internal discussion to see if there’s room to lower the age to 16 and if we can make exceptions for federated users.

I hope you see that this really isn’t meant as a powertrip, and we are just trying to protect the Lemmy.world site.

Sorry if I do not respond to comments quickly, it’s late in my timezone.

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As I said, I wouldn’t expect an update on this any time soon, despite how much is sucks.