I don’t care so much for being part of this community, if those mods act like that. Not worth to discuss with them. However it’s interesting to experience the different types of bans and blocks.
In the past I was temporary banned. I saw the comments, but I couldn’t write any new ones for a while.
Yesterday my post was deleted without me getting any notification about it. The second post was different and the same happened. Still I was able to see the community. Now it’s not part of my joined communities anymore and if I search for it it doesn’t appear in the results. (You are right, shadow ban wasn’t the right terminology.) But it’s limited to the community, not to lemmy.ml because I still can see and join other communities there.

As previously mentioned, I’m on my phone (Blorp App), so it’s maybe different in the web browser.