or it’s just instance-specific, ie, one could just ban the instance personally
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Nope. The protocol is way too public for shadowbanning.
You can be banned by other instances than your home instance, when that happens no new post/comment from you will federate to that instance in particular but the others still sees it as normal.
For example, I could ban you on my instance, and I wouldn’t see anything from you ever again, but my instance would be the only instance to see that ban.
If you get banned from LW or lemmy.ml then a lot of people won’t see you so that could definitely feel like a shadow ban, but there’s nothing shadow about it you can see it in the mod log.
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out of all the many temptations to be a troll, it’s just not working for me on lemmy. i am appreciative and chill.
Every action is public in the mod log so I don’t think shadow bans are possible although you might not know to check the mod logs in the moment
What if the instance owner blocked your IP (or even a MAC address if they could) from connecting to the server? That would effectively “shadow” ban a user in the sense nobody else would know they got banned (nothing in the modlog either). The user might not know they were banned, and just assume there’s an issue.
why is there a blank post
Why does this comment look like a shadow?
Just scroll down the page and search yourself
Technically every ban here is a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it.
Shadow banning is more than just not telling you. It also doesn’t stop you from posting or interacting with anything; but hides all that from everyone else so you don’t even know you’re not visible. It’s worse than a regular ban because it also wastes your fucking time.
i was very confused when my mother explained how to move the phone handset to the other thing and make the crazy modem noises and i guess i’m behind
