Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment.

Correction: No one browsing through your specific server can read it. The rest of us see it just fine.

From where I'm sitting, it seems like the filter is applied (a) when a lemmy.ml user makes a post (it strips it from the source and says removed for everyone) and (b) when lemmy.ml federates another instance's comment over (source instance and any other non-censored federated instance has the word intact, ONLY you guys don't see it).

Come see!

I can read every swear in this thread except the root post.

The filter is a text matching regex, and not terribly verbose. Very easy to circumvent

Test of the instance slur filter, please ignore:

bitchy, retard, cock

Oh yeah hadn’t thought of that

But my point was that ‘bitch’ was being censored in his comment, but not ‘fuck’

So it’d still be fuck a removed

Plus I gotta be honest, not a fan of that one. Like how people aren’t a fan on moist.

Das glaub ich nicht Hurensohn

Changing it to "removed" instead just drives the euphemism treadmill faster, people will find ways to say the same without those specific words. Whether something is a slur is also very context-dependent. Something computers as of yet aren't well equipped to handle.

Small test: Dio porco Cunt Vaffanculo Hurensohn Dickhead

Well how am I supposed to reference a female dog then?

A lot of translations of "Spez ist ein hurensohn" translates to "Spez is a son on of a bitch" -- although "hurensohn" is more literally "whore's son"

Edit: Seems like it's just your instance (lemmy.ml)