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Can someone explain how account suspensions are federated(if at all)?
Example:
A spam account on mastodon.social sends spam messages to 100 different remote instances.
After a while a mastodon.social moderator suspends the account.
Are the other 100 instances notified at all or do they all each have to find the spammer and suspend them?
#fediverse #mastodon #gotosocial #fediadmin #askfedi #activitypub
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@jasdemi As far as I'm aware suspensions aren't actively pushed but they are federated, so a server will eventually fetch the profile and find it suspended. Could be wrong.
@jasdemi nope, a suspended account from the original instance is a "no longer existing" account to the rest of Fedi, thankfully!😅
@jasdemi Origin server sends out a Delete message where the object of the Delete message is the ActivityPub URI/ID of the Actor being deleted. The Delete has to be signed by that Actor's private key. The message is usually sent first to the followers of the account, then any other instance they might have interacted with (each server software handles this differently). From then on, any calls to by remote servers to dereference the Actor will receive code 410 Gone.
@dumpsterqueer Thanks 
Just checked the accounts admin page and there are hundreds of suspended accounts from other instances. That's pretty cool.
@jasdemi Nothing happens outside an instance because that's the nature of a decentralised social media platform... For better or for worse.
For example, mastodon.social reported me for apparently misusing the hashtag #Mastodon
I reported them back because that's super abusive of them.
Did anything happen? Of course not. I'm part of a different instance, which took no action against me. Mastodon.social also completely ignored my report as it took no action against itself.