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I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world
(lemmy.sdf.org)
For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
My point is that that instance admins didn't intend it as a "shadow ban", but as a normal lemmy ban for someone they don't believe deserves a platform towards their instance membership. Therefore insisting on calling it "a shadow ban" when most people understand that term to be something else than an instance ban, is egregious and misleading with the aim of revenge.
Sure, lemmy could introduce notifications, In fact, since the modlogs are public, this could be done by any frontend. But it's still doesn't mean that the admins tried to shadow ban someone.
Well my comment made clear that it wasn't about intent but rather a reasonable interpretation.