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Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.

How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?

I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.

And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.

So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel OK about it, for the most part. I can say "genocide is always wrong" and not get banned here.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Scientists working to end West Nile virus by eliminating mosquitos ability to reproduce.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Until you get specific

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But ya can’t see the word bitch (or a bunch of other swears)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

How will I ever decide whether or not to make this tradeoff?????

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

good. not everyone wants to deal with misogyny.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no, not the tyranny of the regular expression filtering of a few bigoted words! This is fascism!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bitch isn’t a bigoted word lawl

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's misogynistic, pretty clear cut bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not if you’re calling something cool “bitchin’”!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The root word is baked in misogyny, that doesn't change that dynamic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I only see removed but this comment makes me think of female dogs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yerp, that’s exactly correct hahaha

Other instances don’t remove words

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Definitely an example of an over the top word removal, while I get it could be purposeful with some words