It appears to only apply to my server, but it’s strange I can change stuff in a community that I don’t own. I spun up a PieFed server, federated with lemmy shitpost, and I can supposedly change members and mods.
The description seems to only apply to my instance, but I still find it weird you can view and “change” members.
On YOUR server you can do whatever you want. You are the admin, so it’s logical that you can perform any action whatsoever on your local copy of everything that has been copied there. (If you couldn’t through the UI, you certainly could through manual changes in the DB.)
Nothing you do because of this will be successfully federated to anywhere other than your server. That would be a major security issue, after all anyone could maliciously set up a server and make random changes affecting everyone.
Also, if your the admin I would make a normal user for everyday use. If your admin account is compromised, you would loose access to your instance
What? That really doesn’t make much sense, the admin has direct access to the server and reset the password of any account, including their own admin account and any alternate account they use.
I have 2 accounts on my instance, this account and the admin.
I use this account as my daily driver and get an email if there is a sign up request