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.

  • @PumaStoleMyBluff
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    It doesn’t matter if this is Lemmy’s default behavior. Allowing users to post comments that cannot be viewed by anyone in the receiving community is shadowbanning, regardless of whether Lemmy puts that label on it.

    • db0
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      I would argue that’s the fault of the frontend not informing the user that they’re banned, and not a shadow banning.