Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.
So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.
This is what my last reply would have been.
(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)
In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.
is that like a shadowban? but for specific instance, or a post?
No it's a mechanism that locks only a comment thread instead of the whole post, meaning no replies can be made to the locked comment or it's already existing replies. But the post itself can still be commented on, other comments can be replied to etc.
This feature will be in lemmy 1.0 (the next big release) but since the current lemmy version doesn't have it, a piefed instance can't tell a lemmy instance "hey no more replies to this comment please". So the commenters lemmy instance allows the reply, sends it to the piefed instance, the piefed instance silently rejects it (bc. of the lock) and doesn't send it to the other servers federating. Since the commenter cannot be notified that the comment got rejected they would not know about it unless they look for their comment on the piefed instance.
It's not a malicious feature, but a technical limitation. The point of this post however is that even if the feature worked as intended on both instances, a mod replying to someone disagreeing and immediately making it impossible to reply to them further is "power tripping bastard" behaviour.