Lemdro.id

3 points

7 months ago

It’s completely off-topic, but you know 4chan filters? Like, replacing “fam” with “senpai” and stuff like this?

So. It would be damn great if Lemmy had something similar. Except that it would replace emojis, “lol” and “lmao” with “I’m braindead.”

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HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social

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4 points

7 months ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/word-replacer-max/

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1 point

7 months ago

That extension is fun, but it doesn’t “gently shame” the person spamming emojis by replacing their emojis with “I’m braindead” in a way that themself would see.

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Scubus@sh.itjust.works

2 points

7 months ago

How do I edit someone else’s post

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2 points

7 months ago

Contrariwise to your blatant assumption, I’m not proposing a system where users can edit each others’ posts. I’m just toying with the idea of word filters, not too different from the ones that already exist for slurs in Lemmy.

For example. If you write [insert slur here], it gets replaced with removed. What if it replaced emojis with “I’m braindead.”? That’s it.

(Before yet another assumer starts doing its shit: the idea is not too serious.)

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works

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2 points

7 months ago

Aren’t they effective when used sparingly 😕

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1 point

7 months ago

They would be less obnoxious if used sparingly, but they wouldn’t be effective unless the reason why they’re used changed, from graphical echo (“I saw a cat today 🐱”) and mood/attitude particles (like you did) to ideographic usage (e.g. “I saw a 🐱 today”). Plus they’re still colourful and attention-grabbing drawings within text, they detract attention from the text itself.

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2 points

7 months ago

That would be amazing.

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