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.
One thing I’ve noticed was not getting notifications for bans or comments/posts getting removed
They’re in the modlogs but I never got notifications for the actions
It didn’t matter if it was my home instance or on other instances no notifications were sent to me
So it’s not really shadow banning or shadow removing as it’s all in the open modlogs, but not getting told about it does feel pretty shitty
Edit: I’d love to actually get notifications for when my stuff gets removed or whatever as how am I expected to shift my behavior if I don’t know I’m fucking up
Or alternatively, know when your submissions/comments are not welcome and you should find an alternative community.
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