rbairwell
commented
1 year ago At the moment, Moderators have access to the following actions on the domain/instance level:
- Suspend: "Equivalent to suspending all past and future accounts from the server. No content from the server will be stored locally except for usernames."
- Limit: "Equivalent to limiting all past and future accounts from the server. Previously known as “silencing”."
I think you are proposing the "Suspend" option - where only the usernames from the remote server are available to local users. Is this correct?
SoniEx2
nemobis
Pitch
A Freeze instance/remote user is an instance/remote user forbidden from interaction. Unlike silence or suspend, it prevents users on the local instance from being immediately aware of it. The local copy of the profile/instance simply becomes entirely frozen. (It's still possible to follow it locally but it wouldn't federate at all etc, no new posts would be processed, no deletes would be processed, no notifications would be exchanged, it'd just be frozen.)
Motivation
The purpose is to give admins the tools they need to manage their communities as they see fit, while reducing the impact on local users.