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[–] [email protected] 234 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can't stand it. Censoring yourself so some random ass company can make more ad revenue.

Fuck that.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Come to Lemmy. We'll let you say "fuck".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But not removed. Have to say B!tch instead....

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless you're on Lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (21 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not like Lemmy doesn't have a controversial slur filter itself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Which makes no sense. How are the words picked? Is there a sliding scale, or an objectionable meter somewhere? Who decided that b!tch should be censored, but not cunt or skank?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

But that's about it. And god forbid you have differing ideology

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

What ideology are you talking about? Sure, you might just be a salty liberal or propertarian, but such vaguery could easily be a dogwhistle for something sinister.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

There's Lemmygrad if you're that kind of guy... But touching grass is available too.

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

Is the exploding heads instance still alive? There you had some very different opinions.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh no! People might challenge my opinions! The horror!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fun fact: until not too long ago there was a language filter built right into Lemmy's source code.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hexbear begins lighting torches

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually dig it a bit. They're not really censoring themselves, they're still talking about corn and seggs just in a way the app doesn't yet recognize. Take that advertisers!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're literally bypassing being censored. They're continuing to talk about the shit that the company doesn't want them to. It's the opposite of what people are bitching about.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The term “ungood” also lets you talk about bad things but that doesn’t make it not newspeak. The corporate sanitizing and infantilizing of speech is not a good thing. It’s not the teen’s problem though, it’s the corporations and their desire for a sanitized public square they can plaster ads over.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yes, exactly. The problem is corporate sanitization not the adapted language norms by teens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ungood was given by the state. This is stuff people are coming up with in defiance of the state/corporation/censorer. That distinction matters, I think.

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