I keep seeing removed in a lot of comments and posts and my question is why is that?

    • person@lemm.ee
      71·
      10 months ago

      (really hoping it also filters fuck, doubt and regret has already set in)

    • notfromhere@lemmy.mlOP
      52·
      10 months ago

      This happened on lemmy.world last I saw was in /c/politics. Also fuck came through just fine.

      • person@lemm.ee
        8·
        10 months ago

        It saves every post and comment on its own server, and filters it there. If you’re viewing text through lemmy.ml it will not have the N word in it. Apparently fuck is not strong enough, hence my doubt in my immediate reply to my own comment.

        edit: I assume if a user on lemmy.ml comments a slur on a lemmy.world instance it will also federate only the censored version, but I’m not sure about that.

          • person@lemm.ee
            9·
            10 months ago

            lemmy.ml is run by the devs, one of whom is dessalines. He talks about it in general for example in this issue, and again in general in Lemmy’s ideal Code of Conduct here (I say ideal because it’s what they want, but instances are free to do whatever they want to, at risk of defederation)

            I’m sure there are lots of other places they talk about this, but they seem to see it as an integral part of Lemmy, so perhaps there is no specific announcement post. You can join a different instance and you will see a lot less of removed.

          • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Just because they don’t announce they do doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

            • notfromhere@lemmy.mlOP
              2·
              10 months ago

              I am trying to find more information on it, I didn’t say it wasn’t happening. Thanks!

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      10 months ago

      I worry that implementing a filter means they agree to curate everything and be liable when it fails.

  • Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com
    13·
    10 months ago

    For a short while, the lemmynsfw server used a slur list that, in order to catch all the variations, only used the first syllable. It resulted in words like ‘toremovedht’ and ‘hot and removedy’.

    It was pleasantly nostalgic, with memories of Fark and its attractive and successful African-Americans.

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
      3·
      10 months ago

      Reminds me of when bOINGbOING started using “disemvowelment” on comments the mods flagged. The comment remained but all vowels were removed.

    • PatMustardEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I discovered that lemmy.world uses Scunthorpe Problem filtering when having a conversation about the word “sniggering”

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    131·
    10 months ago

    lemmy.ml has a slur filter active and built in that is on the aggressive side. Each server may have different filter words. If you post to somewhere that doesn’t have that word in the slur filter but yours does, others will see the word and you will see “removed”.

    This is useful for servers that value a safe space for users against hate, bigotry vs. other servers that are a little more laissez-faire with censoring where appropriate.

  • THE MASTERMIND@lemmy.today
    8·
    10 months ago

    One of the reason i don’t have an account there like sometimes you just have to say “fucking hell what the fuck” instead of " removed removed what the removed " you know not every curse ever typed is insulting someone . I do understand that you need to cendor words which are racist or sexist but the rest should’nt be censored.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    36·
    10 months ago

    Because we live in a censorship culture. It is very common these days to attempt to solve problems by deleting content.

  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    38·
    10 months ago

    Probably bigotry and racism being removed by the slur filter.