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
I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485
to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.