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.
Defederation will result in an effective shadowban, just due to the way Lemmy is structured. If you yourself can’t find one of your own, though, that indicates it was probably removed, which is different from a shadowban.
Standard forum-system here, each community sets its own rules and moderation strictness, so best to read the sidebar before you participate. Some communities are extremely strict, others are extremely loose. Applies to whole Instances too.
Would it show that the comment was deleted on the user side?
I use Sync for Lemmy and there is no indication that it was hidden/removed.
Try going into that specific community, and in the sidebar towards the bottom you’ll find a button for “modlog”. It should have all moderator actions in there, and they usually give a reason for why they did it. Though they don’t actually have to or anything, it’s just up to them.
Also maybe want to check the modlog for the entire Instance, on the Instance sidebar.
I’m not sure if the Sync app has things in different places in their specific UI, incidentally. But there should be sidebars with modlogs somewhere.
Thanks.
Turns out in this specific occasion that it wasn’t removed/hidden; so it must be a bug with Sync for Lemmy.
I’ve encountered a few times where the post or a parent comment got deleted, which also appears to hide any sub-comments.
Might that be it?
I use Sync for Lemmy. When I click my own comment or the reply from the other person it takes me to the comments section where it only shows the parent comment. Hmmm… Maybe it’s a bug in Sync for Lemmy
Haven’t seen that behavior myself yet, but yes, that does sound like either a bug or shadowbanning.
Excuse me for not being able to help.
Mods tools on Lemmy are pretty rudimentary. We mods can ban users, ban users for a defined period of time, and or ban user while removing all their content posted to a particular community.
As for posts and comments. We can remove them with or without providing a reason in our logs.
If you’re worried about getting banned or having content removed, you can see all of that in Lemmy’s public mod logs.
I’ve had many comments (and I know a few others have too) quietly deleted for talking about the downsides of Linux, so mild censorship is definitely a thing depending on where you visit. But “shadow banning”, if I’m not mistaken, is kinda nonexistent on a platform like this
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/modlog/view?target=1685058
Modlog says you don’t have any moderation actions against you.
Weird, I’m telling ya I’ve had MANY comments disappear
You can get stuff deleted by mods that don’t tell you about it, but I don’t know about actual shadow banning
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Actual banning but the federation making it weird is also a thing. Example would be us on Kbin. Folks can get banned from a community but if they’re on our instance they can still comment and it’ll still show up for us.
I’ve had this happen, but I found out it is of magazines I had blocked later on, hiding the comments for me. (I’m on Kbin, don’t know if this works the same way elsewhere)
