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As the title says. I believe Reddit has been using shadow bans to quiet dissenting opinions that aren't inherently breaking TOS.

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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes and it happens on Lemmy too.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

At least you can move to another instance if you ever get banned on any given instance on Lemmy, or roll your own instance if you really want to own your presence on this platform and you have the local hardware to dedicate to that, or even the rest of the Fediverse for that matter, to also include Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Matrix, and PeerTube.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

It’s a small at least for most communities tho because there is so much less participation in smaller instances they almost don’t matter. Especially if you start your own.