The majority of instances require manual review. beehaw is one of them.

So actually, your comment’s actual data is in your grouchysysadmin.com instance, and similar to following a symlink, lemmy.ml is just pointing to your data.

Oh that’s super interesting.

Is there an API for that returns the instance list is JSON?

If I host an instance and disable community creation, and my users comment & post in lemmy.ml communities, I still have to mod those comments in lemmy.ml even though I’m not a mod in any lemmy.ml community?

What about the mods in lemmy.ml communities? Can they still mod content made by my instance’s users?