I gather some server is for some arcane reason censoring naughty words to protect our delicate sensibilities. Is it on my end, on lemmy.ml? Is it the server people are posting from? Is it something happening in the federation? Is it the Romulans?
First, always start by reading the public modlog. Mod logs are public.
Next: how about an example? I’m not seeing what you describe, so I’d really appreciate a reference (link) to whatever it is you are describing.
Assuming you’re using a browser, on the main community page, expand the sidebar. The modlog is linked at the bottom, just above the list of mods. Here’s the modlog for /c/nostupidquestions
How the hell do you ‘expand the sidebar?’
I don’t totally get this user interface. Not for lack of trying, more for lack of I don’t see what you’re saying…
And here’s my message from the Jerboa app for Lemmy on Android.
I’m on the toilet right now, you expect me to drag my laptop in here?
If your chosen mobile app doesn’t offer the feature, then you can’t. Every app that does offer the feature does it differently, so it’s impossible for me to give you a single guidance that works on every mobile app.
I assume you do have access to a web browser on mobile though, so open your web browser, navigate to the instance hosting the community and/or your own home instance, and then depending on the layout used by your device the modlog will be a clickable link in the sidebar to the right, or will appear as a link near the bottom of the page after scrolling to the bottom.
I’ve actually found it now on the Jerboa app, but thank you and everyone else for the advice.
New platform to me, still learning, but hey I’m enjoying it so far anyways 👍
If you use Liftoff (which I largely recommend!) then you have to open the community or instance that you are interested in, and on the “about” tab (it shows the sidebar) there is a “modlog” button at the bottom, which if you click you’ll see the modlog for that community or instance.
You can open the main page of a community by clicking on it’s name when you see it (like in the header of a post), or by searching.
For opening the instance main page you basically click on the instance name until you see it. Most of the times it will get you there directly, but sometimes you’ll need to find and click the instance name once more.
Or you can open either from a search menu, of course.
In a few threads now where someone typed an expletive, the post gets censored and it just says removed where the word should’ve been.
I’m trying to link to a comment, but when I check the link, it keeps pointing to my response to them. Seems like some other lemmy quirk, but maybe it’ll work for you
In another post, someone tried to say “resting removed face” but it came out “resting removed face”
edit: well that’s awkward, when I tried to write b i t c h, it did it to my comment here. So it is a lemmy.ml thing?
Lemmy has a slur filter regex. In case you’re curious, you can see an instance’s regex using this url (replacing the domain as needed):
CTRL+F “slur_filter”
Huh, there are some filtered slurs in there I’ve never heard of before! I guess this probably isn’t the place to ask to whom they apply and how, though. Still, the list isn’t as long as I expected, and doesn’t seem to apply to profanity so much as just offensive slurs. I feel like the “b-word” is a little bit of a stretch, but I can appreciate the intent there.
Thanks for giving the best answer here!
removed
Server you’re on will censor words from a list maintained by your admin
Lemmy.ml does censor certain words. Like female dogs, or bitches. B. I. T. C. H.
I blame Romulans. They just can’t stay on their side of the Neutral Zone.
