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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 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole

Can you read those or are they censored?

[–] trachemys@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheRealBob@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No one. I’m the famous hacker 4chan.

Wdym? All I see is hunter2

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dktr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] anon_water@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The one after fuck is removed.

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

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

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

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What an odd choice for which word to censor.

[–] DaedalistKraken@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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

[–] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I understand now so thanks for telling me!

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see 4, none appear as removed.

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

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

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

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A right cunty thing for them to do, mate

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 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 )

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

As a FMHY user I do not have such weakness

[–] bananaghost@kbin.social 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?

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 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).

[–] ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] valen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

And tits shouldn't even be on the list.

Mmmm tater-tits

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 14 points 1 year 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!

[–] jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Somewhere that isn't a little bitch, yeah.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (5 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.

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[–] jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fucking Winnie-the-Pooh-ass bitch.

[–] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago

That was what made me move, too.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Just discovered this also. I'm out. What a disappointment.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fuck dammit

[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hunter2

Doesn't look like stars to me.

Wow great feature!

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

it only works if its your credit card number and password

[–] jtablerd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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