1y ago

Why do I keep seeing this weird thing in comments and posts?

I keep seeing removed in a lot of comments and posts and my question is why is that?

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lemmy.ml (your instance) removes swears and slurs and puts fuck i mean removed in their place
- .ml also removes anything negative about china. It’s basically a milder tankie instance
  
  They'll also follow you around and downvote everything your account posts if you do something the CCP doesn't like.
- (really hoping it also filters fuck, doubt and regret has already set in)
- This happened on lemmy.world last I saw was in /c/politics. Also fuck came through just fine.
  
  It saves every post and comment on its own server, and filters it there. If you're viewing text through lemmy.ml it will not have the N word in it. Apparently fuck is not strong enough, hence my doubt in my immediate reply to my own comment.
  edit: I assume if a user on lemmy.ml comments a slur on a lemmy.world instance it will also federate only the censored version, but I'm not sure about that.
- I worry that implementing a filter means they agree to curate everything and be liable when it fails.
Removed
- Removed
  
  Clearly you don't know what removed is, because if removed was your removed in the middle of the night, you wouldn't removed so quickly as removed up your removed.
lemmy.ml has a slur filter active and built in that is on the aggressive side. Each server may have different filter words. If you post to somewhere that doesn't have that word in the slur filter but yours does, others will see the word and you will see "removed".
This is useful for servers that value a safe space for users against hate, bigotry vs. other servers that are a little more laissez-faire with censoring where appropriate.
Probably bigotry and racism being removed by the slur filter.
- Mostly it's just innocent bystander vocabulary
It's what you see when a user (or admin?) deletes their post/comment.
- No It’s in the middle of a sentence or removed like mine.

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