yimbyJul 15, 2023

Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments?

https://lemmy.ml/post/2076609

Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments? - Lemmy

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?

Show threadSavvyWolfJul 15, 2023

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.

Show threadyimbyJul 15, 2023
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!
Show threadttmrichter
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.
Jul 16, 2023 at 8:59amWeb
Show threadjerdle_lemmyJul 19, 2023
Yes, we want to say bitch. Bitch.
Show threadttmrichterJul 19, 2023
I’m sorry, did I say anything that suggested otherwise?