or it’s just instance-specific, ie, one could just ban the instance personally

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    Nope. The protocol is way too public for shadowbanning.

    You can be banned by other instances than your home instance, when that happens no new post/comment from you will federate to that instance in particular but the others still sees it as normal.

    For example, I could ban you on my instance, and I wouldn’t see anything from you ever again, but my instance would be the only instance to see that ban.

    If you get banned from LW or lemmy.ml then a lot of people won’t see you so that could definitely feel like a shadow ban, but there’s nothing shadow about it you can see it in the mod log.

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      Yep the closest you will get is a server will fail to reach out to another server because of a technical issue. But the very nature of activityhub means that it will likely reach out again. Plus it will probably not just be your post that doesn’t make it’s way, it will be a whole collection.