Whats the point of writing prn, f@ck, sht or anything like that instead of the actual words? You can still read them, its not like they are gone if you replace a letter or two.

153 points

On Lemmy, there’s no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language

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On lemmy.ml at least, there’s a very good reason cause the admins are authoritarians. Can’t even say “bitch” without it getting removed.

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33 points

Good to know which instance to avoid!

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25 points

So then that leads to the question: why is lemmy.ml run by a bunch of prudish babies?

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A better question is why do you feel the need to die on the hill of using slurs?

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I’m just surprised I haven’t been banned from .ml yet for calling out tankies when they do shitty tankie things.

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Fun fact 1: if you do get banned or have your comments removed you’ll only know if you check the modlogs. And likely only if you check the modlogs of the instance that took action against you as the modlogs don’t fully sync between each other.

Fun fact 2: you have been in the past, here’s a link to the mod actions against you on .ml

Fun fact 3: and so have I, I only just recently finished a 2 week ban over here on .ml for calling that kind of stuff out on here.

Edit: That didn’t take long @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works looks like you got banned for your comment.

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Sounds shit, the admins must be right bitches

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“Being polite and using inclusive language is authoritarian”

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You can be goddamn polite and still swear without automatically becoming a fucking asshole.

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Although I totally get why lemmy.ml would want to do something like that, it’s not “being polite…”, it’s “enforcing politeness…”

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Thats what the rule says, but the way they enforce it is a bit more strigent than that.

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If you gave “authoritarian” to an AI that determined what it meant through it use alone, it would think it means “Won’t let me be a nazi”

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White liberals don’t try to justify using slurs challenge 2023 [IMPOSSIBLE!]

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Let’s just get this out of the way…

Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. And sometimes fart turd twat bitch.

Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.

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I’m on an aussie instance, it just called you a fucken lightweight.

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14 points

Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.

I fucking love the fact that im instance admin

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13 points

No censorship here. Could’ve guess with the instance’s name but still good to know! Thanks :)

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12 points

Carlin’s Big 7 + 4, loud’n’clear.

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10 points

Okay I’m going to eat the onion. What are words 5 and the last one?

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14 points

C o c k s u c k e r is word 5. T i t s is the last one on that sentence. B i t c h is the last word of the post.

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9 points

Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.

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My video was posted 12 years ago and yours was only posted 9 years ago. Check mate, atheists.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

It’s much older than that…

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

this seems… familiar

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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6 points

Fuck, shit, pussy, ass, motherfucking, damn, bitch Bitch, damn, motherfucking, ass, pussy, shit, fuck

-Chop Chop Slide

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I fucked your mom

I haven’t heard that song in ages

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2 points

They played it in their most recent tour. Great setlist

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That’s awesome. I had it on a compilation record from fat wreck called, “Short Music for Short People” had like 100+ songs and the rule was they had to be 30 seconds or less. Had some bangers, that one included.

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My mind auto harmonized with this comment

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Comes from the social media platforms that auto remove stories that contain certain words. Tiktok, Instagram, etc.

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Cool, all the platforms I don’t use anyway.

Think I just don’t like places that are squeaky clean.

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TikTok and Instagram are squeaky clean?

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Some of them coughlemmy.mlcough has a swear filter

edit: world->ml

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I’m on lemmy.world and there is no fucking swear filter.

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My mistake, I meant .ml, accidentally conflated the two.

I do come across a lot of removed while browsing on my .world account when the blahaj is being iffy, not sure what that is from.

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10 points

I think for posters on .ml, the words are actually removed and not just hidden from them. So that’s why you see it from other instances on their posts too.

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The communists are policing speech? Who would have guessed

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A filter? Let me test it right now…

Fuck.

Unless this is a shadowban type filter, it seems to not be there…

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Fun fact: you won’t get told when your stuff is removed or if you get banned. You have to check the modlogs.

This is Lemmy wide.

And looks like it’s still up as of 2 hours after you posted

Edit: Spelling

Edit 2: Spleling

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4 points

Interesting, I didn’t even know there is a modlog.

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7 points

Did it work? How about bitch? That one came up often when searching to see where I fucked up with my info.

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Theirs didn’t, yours did

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6 points

I think it’s not a swear filter, but more like a ‘potentially discriminatory terms’ filter.

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I see. I don’t mind filters that remove racist or homo/transintolerant slurs, that’s keeping a community safer and inclusive rather than enforcement of politeness.

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2 points

What’s a female dog called?

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A good girl.

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Tbh that one drives me nuts, on some sites I can’t even say “Yeah I was bitching about Bad Idea’s availability to my shop’s owner and he said he didn’t want to carry their products because the guys running it are cunts.” (Curious to see what happens to this comment lmao)

Like dude, I’m the one I said was bitching about the thing, don’t fucking censor my colloquialisms, I wasn’t even trying to insult me!

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Let’s test that one…

removed.

Edit::What do you know, it was actually filtered.

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You cant say the word for female dog apparently.

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3 points

Wow I didn’t know that. Good thing I switched to a different instance (although it was mostly due to poor performance on lemmy.ml at the time).

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I’ve seen that for words that are considered to be ‘triggers’, as if saying ‘r@pe’ is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.

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That behavior drives me up the fucking wall, because by munging the word they make it less likely to be caught by user-invoked blocklists. Meaning they’re forcing people to be triggered after taking steps to avoid such.

Don’t fucking do that shit.

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14 points

for the blocklist or whatever: rape

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A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.

Videos that say “kill”, “rape”, “died”, etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.

People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.

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That makes sense.

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I suspect it’s largely become a habit from people being on platforms that have automatic blocked word filters.

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