Because it leads to voluntary tiktokifcation of vocabulary.

A lot of people online these days use silly workaround phrases to get around hidden word filters, from "sewerslide" to "sesbian lex" (a trend that really got off the ground years ago on tik tok). Social media sites suppress or remove content containing these words to keep things advertiser-friendly. One nice thing about non-corpo social media such as the lemmyverse is that we don't need to speak in such strange, convoluted, and infantalizing ways. My brother didn't have a sewerslide, he comitted suicide. I don't have sesbian lex, I fuck dykes.

More to the point, I find it incredibly offputting that we're allowed to discuss unpleasant concepts but not name them. With the appropriate trigger warnings, anyone here can discuss the sexual violence that came with the Nakba (or the recent Israeli riots calling for the ",right to **** Palestinian prisoners). Or we could talk about the historiocity of claims that the Red Army ****ed its way through Germany at the end of WWII.

Everyone knows what I mean with the censored words. We're all intelligent adults discussing history and horrific world events. Why can we discuss a concept but not name it?

For one, I still don't know what term Trotsky used.

it's not a big deal but things like the sremovedhorpe problem are annoying and it gets in the way of some math topics but c/math isn't exactly hopping and how much do we need to talk about how a point is a removed sphere anyway?

I would appreciate reports of any incidents of this when they happen so we can improve the filter.

The f-slur was formerly the primary culprit for both of those issues due to matching a common three letter sequence, but since tweaking it to match less aggressively, I haven't noticed any instances of the slur filter breaking URLs or censoring names. That change was made back in mid-May so any examples since that time I will attempt to fix.

It would definitely be better if it functioned like an inline spoiler rather than wholesale replacing the text with removed.

Or make any comment matching the filter autospoilered with the collapsed text be the category of prohibited text.

Turns out, same.