Socsa OP , 5 hours ago

It’s separate. If you just get banned from the instance you can still comment and vote on the instance and other instances can potentially still see it depending on the exact federation graph. But for whatever reason community bans federate differently and participation gets blocked at the home instance. Because of this, .ml runs a special tool to do these “super bans.” I have gotten just the instance ban a few times but I think this is my first super ban.