Lemmy Developer removes comment in asklemmy@lemmy.ml for asking Russians if they are being oppressed by their government and if they support the ukraine war.
At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.
Remember in the early days of the Fediverse when people said it was all about "freeze peach"? Yeah that was not good. Not only is it wrong and would disappoint and piss off a lot of people when they learn about defederation and that you can still get banned, but it also attracts a lot of extremely rotten people to the platform. Remember exploding-heads? Yeah that was a side effect of that lie to try and promote the Fediverse.
I was flabbergasted when I found out the word Chicken was sometimes censored. It would put removeden. Really saved me from those nuggets of hurtful baby hens.
I heard that the filter used to be hardcoded and there was a lot of controversy because the devs refused to remove it or allow it to be customized but they folded when people were willing to fork it to remove the limitation or remove it altogether.
FYI, just making a new user on a different instance isn't a big deal. Guess why there's a "3" in my user name. Come to think of it, my first account was on lemmy.ml too, although the main reason why I moved at that time was because I forgot the password.
I probably would've signed up at lemmy.ml if they hadn't closed registrations in the Reddit migration, very glad I didn't though from what has happened there. I signed up to Lemmy.world instead, and even though it is problematic in many ways at least the Admins there aren't trigger happy power tripping bastards, trying to promote their pro-russia tankie shit.