• QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What pearl clutching son of a bitch at lemmy.ml decided its users were too fragile to hear the word “bitch”? And here’s the real question, can you read ot or does it censor mine? Because if you can read it then what’s the point of censoring your own users?

    Edit: yeah Kbin lets you say it.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment. The word gets immediately replaced when you post. I’d like to know what words are forbidden, is there a list somewhere?

      Just to test how the filter behaves: Bi.tch.

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        Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment.

        Correction: No one browsing through your specific server can read it. The rest of us see it just fine.

        From where I’m sitting, it seems like the filter is applied (a) when a lemmy.ml user makes a post (it strips it from the source and says removed for everyone) and (b) when lemmy.ml federates another instance’s comment over (source instance and any other non-censored federated instance has the word intact, ONLY you guys don’t see it).

        Come see!

    • galaxies_collide@lemmy.world
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      That’s how the Fediverse works. That word is constantly used in inflammatory comments. Don’t like the rules, then leave.

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          I meant how the fediverse works as in each instance can have its own rules and if you don’t like the rules you find a different instance.

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        Or stay and rightfully criticize the instances that use words filters.

        Here’s a wild idea: word filters are the most brain-dead way to deal with a problem. They don’t understand context – you can’t even use a “bad word” so people understand what you’re denouncing. You can’t share your experience with being called a removed.

        They’re also easily bypassed with odd spellings by people that are going to use a “no no word” to be assholes.