is shadowbanning a thing on lemmy?

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• genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  why is there a blank post

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  • Hachiman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why does this comment look like a shadow?

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• DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just scroll down the page and search yourself

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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. The user might not know they were banned, and just assume there’s an issue.

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• Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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• skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Instances can ban you without others being affected. Your comments could be visible on one instance and not on another, so there’s a level of shadow banning going on.

  Real shadow banning isn’t implemented in Lemmy. It could be, but it’d only work for accounts on the same server. It’d also be pretty easy to detect, although the same also goes for other places that do effectively use shadow banning to fight trolls and bots. The people shadow banning works against aren’t smart enough to verify that they haven’t been caught in the first place.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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