asudox

Can we stop using GitHub already? Please move onto Forgejo. It is getting federation in the upcoming years using ActivityPub.

Yes. There are a few bots out there. And I found writing one pretty simple. I wrote this wikibot a while back in Rust: https://codeberg.org/asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs

Though the code sucked ass. Anyways, I am currently making an automoderation bot for Lemmy. You might struggle to find good documentation for the API though.

I assume an account getting banned is the same as an account getting deleted?

Only if the administrator of the instance chooses to delete the content as well.

If they did, it will be the same as deleting the account with “Delete content” option set to true.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/1a299ba6284edc4cefb7507d84d01cd30649a28c/crates/api/src/local_user/ban_person.rs#L25

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/1a299ba6284edc4cefb7507d84d01cd30649a28c/crates/api_common/src/utils.rs#L732

The best way is to read the docs, read code and experiment yourself.

I’ll try to answer them, though:

• It’s hosted on instance A and B. Every instance creates a local copy.
• Your account gets deleted. If you want, you also can select to delete your content (images, posts, comments, etc.). But since this is the Fediverse, it is not guaranteed that your account and content is deleted everywhere.
• Iirc they do
• The existence of the instance itself won’t increase load, but the users on it can.
• Your client asks your instance.