I’ll be scrolling through lemmy world and occasionally I’ll see comments where a word in them has been replaced with removed. Usually from context it’s early a swear word, normal stuff not slurs.
Is this a lemmy.world censorship thing? A lemmy wide thing? I doubt it has anything to do with my app, unless Jerboa is censoring specific words.
Anyone else experiencing this?
It’s either the instance sending the comment, or your instance. Let’s check: fuck shit crap bitch
Edit: looks like lemmy.ml censored bitch.
If you don’t want this, just get an account on another instance. There are some tools to help copy over your list of subscriptions.
Seems lemmy.ml censors slurs specifically then, since “bitch” is considered a gendered slur.
Here in kbin.social I can see it without problem.
Maybe op has activated the filter in settings?
Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole
Can you read those or are they censored?
I can from discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.world, but from lemmy.ml bitch is censored.
You’re not registered with lemmy.ml on your account. It’s not the client.
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits
I think this might be a decision made by lemmy.ml. Previous versions of Lemmy had a word filter list that was force-enabled, so I assume the “main instance” ran by the developers would have it enabled.
I can see all of the swearies in Bob’s comment here from pawb.social , but not when looking at it on lemmy.ml.
Wow that is an absolute dealbreaker for this instance. Blanket censorship is just a big no no. So long and thanks for all the fish, off to find a new instance to call home!
Well you really don’t want to be on lemmy.ml if you don’t like censorship, because they have removed criticisms against the CCP and that fucking bitch Xi.
I don’t recall any particular criticism of the Community College of Philadelphia at lemmy.ml being memory holed. Can you point me to some example? What do people have against that august institution anyway?
I don’t agree with lemmy.ml’s simpleminded word policing system at all (not least of which because it suffers from a variant of the Cunthorpe Problem), but I really do find terribly amusing the people who are OUTRAGED at their inability to use slurs and choose that as the reason to switch instances. I find it very telling.
Instance admins can setup a slur filter for their instance, which automatically removes that word from ever appearing on that particular instance.
