you may notice 32 fewer annoying people on the fediverse and that's because I combed through 4 cross-site hexbear drama threads and all of [email protected] for users on instances we're still federated with that would either vehemently rather not see this site themselves, have active beef with this site, or are just straight up reactionary, and I banned them. I banned them all. I am become George Orwell, Nineteen of Eighty-Fours. 
Does the ban prevent them from commenting on our threads or just prevent us from seeing it?
I recognize a little less than half and all were assholes
Oh you don't know?
If you get purged off of hexbear you get purged in real life.
Cross-instance bans are kinda like shadow bans. They’ll still see our comments, but we won’t see any of their comments. They’re not even notified when they’re banned.
I know this because I went to a banned user’s profile on lemmy.ml and they were still making angry comments at us seeable there but invisble on hexbear. So they can yell into the void, basically
To the shadow realm with them.
What if I mentioned one of them?
There’s a chance they would get a notification and be unable to reply
I think they are completely banned from posting here