Hence why he’s saying he was “fake banned”. If I go to his profile on the instances he’s banned from, there’s a red “banned” icon next to his username. He was perma banned from the instances and perma banned in the communities of those instances he commented in (modlog shows he was perma banned from a bunch of communities all at once). But he can still comment in communities belonging to the instances he’s banned from, ones he never commented in before.

Does this mean fake bans on Lemmy are a thing? Or are we both misunderstanding something here?

Just in case it’s relevant, he’s banned from dbzer0, lemmy.blahaj.zone, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and sh.itjust.works

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Fake bens aren’t a thing, but banning from an instance doesn’t necessarily ban them from all communities (just the ones they’ve interact with up to the time of the ban).

    This means someone banned from instance A can still interact with communities on instance A via instance B if instance B was not informed the person was banned from the community.

    However, a user banned from instance A, interacting with a community on instance A via instance B will not have their content federated via instance A (the home instance of the community). Thus, only users on instance B should be able to see that user’s submissions.

    Clear as mud?

    • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      just the ones they’ve interact with up to the time of the ban

      I got banned from 10 communities on your instance (with no stated reason/expiration) and I’m pretty sure I haven’t interacted with most of those (EDIT: I’m remembering some now, though those were from months ago). So I’m not sure if I got marked by some bot or just said something some mod disagreed with.

      This is not an appeal though as I don’t care beyond a casual mention.