

When you’re instance banned and try to post to a community that is going to an instance you’re banned from it will appear as if you’re posting in that community like normal, but the post won’t federate. Only users native to their instance will be able to see the posts (in Leni’s case, only lemm.ee users can see those posts). Let’s say you’re instance banned from lemmy.world. You could seemingly post to a lemmy.world community on a lemm.ee account, but the post won’t actually show up for lemmy.world users.
are technically still functional to her
Leni’s still banned. I don’t know why you seem so insistent on trying to say they aren’t. You don’t seem to understand how federation works.
https://lemmy.world/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.ca/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.ml/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://sopuli.xyz/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://feddit.uk/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
https://lemmy.cafe/u/shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee
http://beehaw.org/u/shinigamiookamiryuu
Leni attempted to post in a Beehaw community. Leni is instance-banned from Beehaw. This post isn’t visible to anyone on the Beehaw instance. In fact, the post isn’t even on Beehaw, it was posted on lemm.ee.
What makes you think the posts cannot be reported? They exist on the lemm.ee instance. Lemm.ee mods and admins can see those posts. When you post to another instance you aren’t actually leaving your native instance. It’s more like trying to forward a letter to someone. In Leni’s case their letters to lemmy.world are never leaving the post office (lemm.ee), but the staff at the post office (lemm.ee) can still see their letters, even though the recipient (lemmy.world) isn’t getting them.