I haven’t been able to post anything for the last two days. I don’t know if I was banned for a bit or not since I received no notice or warning.
If it wasn’t a ban what happened?
How were you “not able to post anything”? If you noticed you weren’t able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
I wasn’t getting anything. I would press the post button and it would just endlessly loop and never post.
That isn’t shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
The Lemmy software doesn’t have shadow banning, and in fact has a mod log that is very transparent about moderator actions. The modlog doesn’t seem to have anything for you.
Every ban on lemmy is effectively a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it
Sure about this? I got notification of being banned from the tankie instance for what I think they referred to as western propaganda
It was for saying Ukraine has a right to defend itself from Russia and if Russia wants the war to end they should leave lol
Most likely a VPN issue as Lemmy.world attempts to block vpn users from creating posts/comments.
You can still upvote/downvote though.
It’s such a lazy bitch move to blanket block vpn users. For anyone intent on causing meaningful harm it’s trivial to bypass, so the only ones really impacted are the innocent mass of privacy minded people. Unnecessary hassle for people doing nothing wrong.
It’s the most popular instance with questionable politics and moderation and this move pushes people to other instances before they even discover deeper issues there. Most instances have zero issues with VPNs, and it doesn’t even matter what is the parent instance of community you’re posting to. Which means you can post the same stuff into the same place from almost any other instance using VPN.
It was probably your instance having issues
