Are they the same thing? Have the same privileges ? Is there any difference at all ? Or are they both on the same level and use those names interchangeably?
A server admin has full access to the machine running the actual lemmy server. Basically the one that can do updates to the site. They have full terminal access to the server.
A site admin on lemmy is an admin on the instance itself, giving full control over the website, but not updates of any kind. They can ban, approve users, change the sidebar, and remove communities.
Ah, ok. I had a feeling. That makes a lot of sense thank you for clarifying! And like hylander lol there can only be one server admin ? Wouldn’t make sense to have two I would think
It could. People can work on the same server. It just needs good communication. Also if one sleep another could pick up the slack.
The server admin has access to the server infrastructure. They can access the database directly, modify the code that runs lemmy, turn off the site, often has control of the domain name and makes sure it points to the server, etc. The server admin has control over the software that runs the instance and the computer it runs on. They might have an admin account too, but that is not strictly necessary.
With “site admin” I assume that you mean someone with an account that has admin privileges. Such an administrator can access the instance with an account that can see and take action on instance-wide reports, can modify the site’s side bars, create emojis, and has other admin privileges. These admin privileges live within the website itself and are determined by lemmy’s code. This admin does not automatically have access to the server nor the database.
