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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: until not too long ago there was a language filter built right into Lemmy's source code.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hexbear begins lighting torches

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically they're far left (Tankies) but they don't act that much different from far right in terms of behavior (such as their abusive and disruptive trolling).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

They're far right cosplaying leftists.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Wait, Hexbear is far right now for checks notes supporting China?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Leftist instance that your instance preemptively defederated from, presumably so you could stay in your echo chamber

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

There is a language filter still that any admin can put words into.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's not hard coded into the source code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, no predefined list ships in the code, just the ability to add words to the list.