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.
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.
So your argument is that because a modlog entry exists for the ban, nothing else about how it is applied matters? That’s a little obtuse imo. I have seen several users claiming not to even know the modlog exists and being thrilled to learn about it. For many users, it’s a small link in the footer they never noticed. Users don’t get a notification about bans and if the end result is your comments appear to show up for you but not others, that definitely meets the normal definition of a shadowban. Lemmy could introduce some new features(s) to help with that but in the meantime it’s absolutely reasonable to see how a user would interpret things this way. I’ve been on Lemmy over a year and I’m just now finding out this is possible so I wouldn’t say it’s the fault of the user for not understanding how it works.
Lemmy lacking moderation notifications in the UI or email notification backend doesn’t make it a shadowban, if they were absent from the modlog and didn’t put the banned flag on your profile then that would be a shadowban. They didn’t make an attempt to hide it from you, the communication methods are just very poor right now, there is a reason why Lemmy is on version 0.19.3 or 0.19.8 for the later instances, this is still considered alpha software, it’s not finished. The jank is to be expected for a software in its infancy.
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I mean, I was saying what it seems like, not what it is. The user unfriendliness leads to confusion. And yes I understand software takes time, development is what I do for a living. I was just saying it’s reasonable to feel like you have been shadowbanned given the circumstances
Lemmy has 50k AMU and it is severely over modded
Too Many chiefs, not enough Indians
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.