Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments?
Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments?
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.
As a FMHY user I do not have such weakness
Here in kbin.social I can see it without problem.
Maybe op has activated the filter in settings?I don't think there is a swear filter in settings, it looks to be a per instance option (looking a the source code it is).
Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole
Can you read those or are they censored?
Who told you my password?
No one. I’m the famous hacker 4chan.
Wdym? All I see is hunter2
I can from discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.world, but from lemmy.ml bitch is censored.
I can see them all. On lemmy.world and Thunder on iOS.
I see 4, none appear as removed.
Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits
And tits shouldn't even be on the list.
Mmmm tater-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!
Somewhere that isn't a little bitch, yeah.
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 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.
That was what made me move, too.
Just discovered this also. I'm out. What a disappointment.
Fuck dammit
Instance admins can setup a slur filter for their instance, which automatically removes that word from ever appearing on that particular instance.
Fuck no