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is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.