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Is anyone else seeing swear words censored in comments? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole

    Can you read those or are they censored?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The one after fuck is removed.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They don’t want you to talk about female dogs.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Wtf? I'm using Jerboa on Android and can't see anything removed.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits

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    • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I think this might be a decision made by lemmy.ml. Previous versions of Lemmy had a word filter list that was force-enabled, so I assume the "main instance" ran by the developers would have it enabled.

    I can see all of the swearies in Bob's comment here from pawb.social , but not when looking at it on lemmy.ml.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Wow that is an absolute dealbreaker for this instance. Blanket censorship is just a big no no. So long and thanks for all the fish, off to find a new instance to call home!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well you really don't want to be on lemmy.ml if you don't like censorship, because they have removed criticisms against the CCP and that fucking bitch Xi.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't recall any particular criticism of the Community College of Philadelphia at lemmy.ml being memory holed. Can you point me to some example? What do people have against that august institution anyway?

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Fuck dammit

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Instance admins can setup a slur filter for their instance, which automatically removes that word from ever appearing on that particular instance.

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No f***ing way

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    D***it they got me too

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    D*nmark

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    One thing I found out is if you type your lemmy password it censors that too, see: ********************* isn't that a great feature you should try it

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Fuck no

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