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Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems lemmy.ml censors slurs specifically then, since “bitch” is considered a gendered slur.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A right cunty thing for them to do, mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Interestingly, I can see this. Maybe they require a whole world match to avoid the Scunthorpe problem. (Test: cunt cunty )

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As a FMHY user I do not have such weakness

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

Here in kbin.social I can see it without problem.
Maybe op has activated the filter in settings?

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

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).