Cant imagine anything worse than not only specific communities names to post to, but also arbitrarily collecting up #hashtags. Would these appear as posts to you? What if the poster didn’t want it to appear in your community?

interesting, what community was it? 3 reports seems ridiculously low

Not in Employment, Education or Training

shadow banning isn’t a thing here

Wheres the humour?

As I understand it, the account is registered on a given instance, and then that account interacts with other instances via the instance theyre registered on.

They cannot log into another instance with the same details (they need to create an account on each instance).

IE, to interact with you on .ml i’m logged into .world. The instances are federated so I see your post on this .ml community on .world

If I was banned from .world I can’t access the instance and thus any .ml because my interaction is via world instance. I can’t use the same account to log onto ml, I would need to make a new account there

Once for the whole instance

Not necessarily. I have a very long blocked communities list which is likely unique to me. I believe thats taken into account when pulling /all