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For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
Blahaj mods (especially the one modding ghazi, transgender and 196) are the worst kind of mods. They promote blatant misinformation, remove posts calling said misinformation out, and they ban people and label them transphobes despite there being no transphobic words or implications whatsoever in your comments.
Just block the entire instance and move on. There are better instances that better represent the lgbt community.
Source: my ban message is the same as yours, and I have never said or implied anything remotely transphobic.
What I hate about blocking instances is that I no longer seem to get inbox notifications when a member of the instance comments on something in response to me, outside of that instance.
Like, my beef isn't with blahaj users, and I don't want to unintentionally ignore them because their admin/s are nutballs.
From the Book of the Dude, the holy book of the Dudeism religion:
Incidentally, the term “dude” is commonly agreed to refer to all genders. Most linguists contend that the diminutive “dudette” is not in keeping with the parlance of our times.
How did you verify that?
The modlog confirms the ban, and there's another comment chain on this thread that explores the pseudo-shadowban part.
I didn’t know if the mod log was replicated among instances or not. I was always curious how you’d know if another instance banned you.
Joke’s on them, I’ve shadow banned them.
Lol
I don't think there is anything like a shadow ban on Lemmy?
It seems to be an unintentional side effect, that ends up being similar to a shadow ban.
What I mean to say is that I can still make comments on blahaj posts, but they will never show up to users of their instance. So, to me, it seems like everything is okay, when in reality, I've probably been commenting into the ether for 10 mo.
Example:
It's not like a shadow ban. It's just a normally instance ban. A shadowban is by definition invisible to to the affected party. This is very much immediately visible through the modlog.
My greater point is that it's dishonest to liken this to a shadow ban due to the secretive connotations of the latter and the way this paints the admins who gave it out
Cant see me O_O
So your argument is that because a modlog entry exists for the ban, nothing else about how it is applied matters? That's a little obtuse imo. I have seen several users claiming not to even know the modlog exists and being thrilled to learn about it. For many users, it's a small link in the footer they never noticed. Users don't get a notification about bans and if the end result is your comments appear to show up for you but not others, that definitely meets the normal definition of a shadowban. Lemmy could introduce some new features(s) to help with that but in the meantime it's absolutely reasonable to see how a user would interpret things this way. I've been on Lemmy over a year and I'm just now finding out this is possible so I wouldn't say it's the fault of the user for not understanding how it works.
In response to your edit, I don't particularly care about how this post paints an admin that would call me a transphobe and instance ban me, over the singular given comment and the context in which it was made.
Most users don't habitually check the modlog, let alone of every individual instance they engage with. It has pretty much been invisible to me for the last 10 mo, and I've commented here and there multiple times on blahaj posts in that timeframe, with no immediate indication I had been banned.
Seems to fit the definition to me.