That isn't shadow banning, it sounds more like a server (performance?) issue on your instance.
How were you "not able to post anything"? If you noticed you weren't able to post anything (e.g. got an error message), that was (by definition) probably not shadow banning.
On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell
wot
the Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989, something is definitely wrong with the chronology here
The Internet used to be a common resource and information system.
Now it is a propaganda warzone.
Buying lots of identical pairs of socks massively reduces the amount of time you need to find matching pairs after drying them.
2004: The Internet will lead to a utopian society without gatekeepers, without censorship, where we get our information from each other and primary sources, not media companies!
2024: The Internet is based on algorithmic attention. Those who control the algorithms control what parts of the immeasurably large pile of data will get attention and which not. Yet they are protected by the same intermediary liability laws as if they were traditional web forums, blog hosters, wikis with no personalized algorithm (for which those laws are very good and necessary).
Stallman was right
I wonder what state FOSS replacements for Adobe software would be in if a significant percentage of Adobe users used their subscription money to donate to FOSS replacements instead.
Does the average voter just not care at all about anything actually important? What is even going on here?
It appears I am getting bored with the entire Internet.
When we had web forums with thread bumping, I got an endless stream of interesting and entertaining things to react to despite there being relatively few users.
Linus Torvalds is a "full-blown woke communist"? Citation needed.
I have been a FOSS enthusiast since my preteen or early teenage years (mid-to-late 2000s), yet I am not in any sense a communist.
Firefox/LibreWolf
That is literally what browser bookmarks are meant for.