is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy?
from unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz to fediverse@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 04:23
https://sopuli.xyz/post/23287159

or it’s just instance-specific, ie, one could just ban the instance personally

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Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me on 02 Mar 04:40 next collapse

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.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 04:47 collapse

Yep the closest you will get is a server will fail to reach out to another server because of a technical issue. But the very nature of activityhub means that it will likely reach out again. Plus it will probably not just be your post that doesn’t make it’s way, it will be a whole collection.

[deleted] on 02 Mar 08:44 next collapse

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unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz on 02 Mar 11:21 collapse

out of all the many temptations to be a troll, it’s just not working for me on lemmy. i am appreciative and chill.

Opinionhaver@feddit.uk on 02 Mar 11:36 next collapse

Technically every ban here is a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz on 02 Mar 11:47 next collapse

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

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 02 Mar 15:08 collapse

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.

TORFdot0@lemmy.world on 02 Mar 14:47 next collapse

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

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 02 Mar 15:06 collapse

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.

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 02 Mar 15:04 next collapse

Just scroll down the page and search yourself

genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Mar 19:06 collapse

why is there a blank post

Hachiman@lemm.ee on 03 Mar 15:48 collapse

Why does this comment look like a shadow?