First of all, Welcome! I'm genuinely glad you decided to join!
That said,
Swearing on Lemmy is actually mandatory and any posts found not containing any swearwords will be promptly removed and you will be permanently banned. These communities strive to reverse the damage done by algorithmically induced self censorship by requiring all participants to swear as much as possible.
Also, anyone censoring non swearwords like "dead" or "sex" that traditionally incur negative algorithmic interactions will also be sacked in addition to previously listed repercussions.
i think you would just mark it a spoiler, click edit and then highlight the image and then at least on the web client its the second to last formatting option the little diamond with a ! in the middle.
General note for spoilers: ACTUALLY MENTION WHAT IT IS YOU ARE CONCEALING. State which season, which movie, which franchise, SOMETHING. Don't make me have to peek at the spoiler to determine whether or not it is something I have seen already, or if it is appropriate to view in my current setting.
Good God do I fucking hate the lobotomisation of our language to please algorithms that were made to please advertisers. The world is messy and gross if you want real people talking about the real world don't fucking try to hamfistedly sanitise everything they say.
Yk i was insanely sceptical regarding the whole “but it probably has like fuckall users” part of Lemmy, but it feels miles less pretentious and inauthentic than reddit ever did. Wild how much more pleasant it is.
My main hopes for Lemmy really are that we manage to get a large enough userbase that more niche things arent excluded and forced to go to reddit, and that is isnt censored.
As much as i dont like some viewpoints from some groups (like the people supporting russia in ukraine, trump supporters, general trolls), i think censorship is more damaging than productive. I just hope that we can have nice things and it doesnt turn into a cesspool of either the far left or far right circlejerking eachother.
I doubt we'd ever have censorship here on Lemmy based on my understanding on how it works. If one instance starts censoring, people would just move to/make a new instance which is all still connected.
We're not without our cons though, biggest problem we have are probably the Tankies, but here they're mostly on the Tankie Triad lemmy.ml, lemmygrad and hexbear. For most instances you only have to worry about .ml, but on Lemmy you can do a personal instance wide block if you'd rather just not deal with them. If you want to see what they get up to from a safe distant check !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
Lemmy.cafe is an instance that blocks the entire Tankie Triad
Oh but this is the word to trigger so ffff many on the internet recently. Silly fuck is so popular word recently, we see fucks and sex and porn on cornflakes ads on tv... How something we see everywhere everyday could trigger anyone anymore?
but Luigi? This word is a fucking reason to get straight into a jail. Luigi makes strong and rich and powerful peoples tremble in fear, o yeah, totally powerful thing. We totally should use Luigi word more.
<here I wrote quite silly, dedicated insult for You, but sadly, rule 2 ask me to stay out of gore content, maybe another time. Please have a nice day>