I haven’t been able to post anything for the last two days. I don’t know if I was banned for a bit or not since I received no notice or warning.
If it wasn’t a ban what happened?
How were you “not able to post anything”? If you noticed you weren’t able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
I wasn’t getting anything. I would press the post button and it would just endlessly loop and never post.
That isn’t shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
Probably. It’s over now whatever it was.
That’s happened any time I’ve tried posting from a desktop browser. Works fine from Connect on android.
Most likely a VPN issue as Lemmy.world attempts to block vpn users from creating posts/comments.
You can still upvote/downvote though.
Except i don’t run it when I’m on lemmy.
Every ban on lemmy is effectively a shadow ban as you don’t get notified for it
Sure about this? I got notification of being banned from the tankie instance for what I think they referred to as western propaganda
Did you point out that the sky is blue?
It was for saying Ukraine has a right to defend itself from Russia and if Russia wants the war to end they should leave lol
Neo liberal cringe woke response /s
No but one time before the defed I had like four hexbear accounts calling me a propagandist because I posted the Wikipedia link to the Holodomor (Ukrainian Genocide).
Was it from a bot or Lemmy itself? If it was from a bot it doesn’t really count since admins set that feature up themselves, it’s not a part of Lemmy itself.
I cant post if I have protonvpn running, or at least if Im connected to certain proton servers. It could be along those lines - whatever IP you were coming from might be blocked, probably via cloudflare?
I have surfshark but I only run it when I’m torrenting. (since that’s all VPN’s are pretty much good for nowadays.)
VPNs are very useful for many different purposes, just nothing (except torrenting) which you need.
List them. 90% of websites I visit have either reduced features (ie; can’t post or comment) or completely block any access to them when using a VPN.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that issue except for some streaming stuff.
You can search online instead of demanding I list reasons.
You’re the one who made the argument that there were plenty of uses. The onus is on you to back up your suppositions. Not me.
This isn’t an academic essay, go look yourself.
As others have said lemmy.world actively bans anyone using a vpn.
It was probably your instance having issues
Might be your home instance is having performance issues, resulting in your posts getting timeouts or bad gateway errors.
You getting any specific error messages from your client when you try to post?
