It appears shadowbans are now standard fair over at mastodon.social. I contacted the admins to get their response, lets hope im mistaken, but the more I look into it the more corrupt the joinmastodon and mastodon.social organizations are starting to look. Uncovered some really nasty stuff these past few weeks.
I'll share the full details in a post later today. I'd like to see if the admins actually respond first.
@Rado1 Yes you certainly can. a shadowban is not a ban coming frrom an individual user. It is a type of ban issued by an instances moderator and effects that user across the whole server. It is very different.