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
Go to a comment you think shows he’s “fake banned” from.
Then go look at it from that instance instead of a 3rd party instance.
Their comments won’t show there, so they won’t get any engagement from people viewing from that instance.
Because they’re making the comments on that 3rd party’s copy, but it doesn’t federate to the main one that they’re banned from