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PSA: the admins are actively shadowbanning accounts and deleting comments that mention lemmy in the spez AMA - Sopuli (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Originally, shadow banning was a way to deal with bots; you give them a view of the site which looks like their spam is there but nobody else sees it. Obviously this is a great way to silence users as well.