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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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[–] TheRealBob@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole

Can you read those or are they censored?

[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] TheRealBob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

No one. I’m the famous hacker 4chan.

Wdym? All I see is hunter2

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

I can from discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.world, but from lemmy.ml bitch is censored.

[–] dktr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I can see them all. On lemmy.world and Thunder on iOS.

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The one after fuck is removed.

[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Fantomas@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A female dog is called a bitch. That's where the profanity comes from, you say that someone is like a female dog and lemmy.ml get real upset.

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What an odd choice for which word to censor.

[–] DaedalistKraken@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

It's the one in the list that's derogatory towards a specific group (women, in this case)

[–] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You’re not registered with lemmy.ml on your account. It’s not the client.

[–] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

I understand now so thanks for telling me!

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I see 4, none appear as removed.

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] TheRealBob@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A right cunty thing for them to do, mate

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

As a FMHY user I do not have such weakness

[–] bananaghost@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years 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).

[–] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] valen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And tits shouldn't even be on the list.

Mmmm tater-tits

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] yimby@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (4 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!

[–] jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Somewhere that isn't a little bitch, yeah.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 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.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure this is tongue-in-cheek, but just to be clear, I'm referring to the genocide-committing Chinese Communist Party.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, you mean the Communist Party of China. Which would be CPC.

Generally when you can't even get the name of an entity right (and that is its actual English name!) it kind of undermines your credibility when you start talking about what it does or does not do.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You're wrong, [that is considered acceptable/ common English reference.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party#:~:text=The%20Chinese%20Communist%20Party%20(CCP,Civil%20War%20against%20the%20Kuomintang.

And even if that was wrong, which it is not, how would a mispronounciation undermine the history of genocide? You're clearly just deflecting from the unfortunate truth about the atrocities committed by the Chinese government.

Are you going to deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre next? Give me a break...

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[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't agree with lemmy.ml's simpleminded word policing system at all (not least of which because it suffers from a variant of the Cunthorpe Problem), but I really do find terribly amusing the people who are OUTRAGED at their inability to use slurs and choose that as the reason to switch instances. I find it very telling.

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[–] minorsecond@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

That was what made me move, too.

[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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

[–] ilovecheese@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hunter2

Doesn't look like stars to me.

Wow great feature!

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it only works if its your credit card number and password

[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Nah it doesn't blank out your credit card number unless it's followed by cvv number and expiration date - I think it even encrypts it if you enter a 5 digit billing zip code

[–] roi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago
[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Fuck dammit

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago
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