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Is shadow banning submissions/comments/users a thing on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there such a thing as shadow banning submissions, comments, or users on Lemmy?

I'm having trouble seeing a couple of comments that I know were there at some points, one of them is my own and I haven't deleted it. So it got me wondering, is shadow banning a thing here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

And that's another good point

A great example is an astrophotography shot I took that I was really proud of that I shared with an astrophotography community around here, it got removed because there was landscape visible in the shot

I only found out about that weeks later when I was looking myself up in the modlogs along with some other entries with my name on them

I understand that on the surface it might seem like a good idea so that mods don't get harassed by users that they took action against, but in the long term those users will continue to post and comment not knowing that their actions are unwelcome