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
The ban didnt federate for some reason.
It’s like you keep sending letters to a pen pal that already mailed you a “Stop Sending Me Letters”, but you didn’t receive it. So you still think you are on speaking terms, but they are shredding all your future letters.
That’s what’s happening.
Edit: Its actually more like they told the post office to just shred them, so they don’t even know you are still sending letters.