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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by notfromhere@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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

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[-] person@lemm.ee 55 points 8 months ago

lemmy.ml (your instance) removes swears and slurs and puts fuck i mean removed in their place

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

.ml also removes anything negative about china. It’s basically a milder tankie instance

[-] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

They'll also follow you around and downvote everything your account posts if you do something the CCP doesn't like.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -1 points 8 months ago

I do that for people who use 'literally' non-ironically. Meh.

[-] person@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

(really hoping it also filters fuck, doubt and regret has already set in)

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This happened on lemmy.world last I saw was in /c/politics. Also fuck came through just fine.

[-] person@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I read through the lemmy.ml rules and didn’t see where they filter anything. Can you link me where they call out doing that?

[-] person@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

lemmy.ml is run by the devs, one of whom is dessalines. He talks about it in general for example in this issue, and again in general in Lemmy's ideal Code of Conduct here (I say ideal because it's what they want, but instances are free to do whatever they want to, at risk of defederation)

I'm sure there are lots of other places they talk about this, but they seem to see it as an integral part of Lemmy, so perhaps there is no specific announcement post. You can join a different instance and you will see a lot less of removed.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for!

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 8 months ago

Just because they don't announce they do doesn't mean it isn't happening.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I am trying to find more information on it, I didn’t say it wasn’t happening. Thanks!

[-] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 8 months ago
[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I worry that implementing a filter means they agree to curate everything and be liable when it fails.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 8 months ago
[-] bjg13@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months ago

For a short while, the lemmynsfw server used a slur list that, in order to catch all the variations, only used the first syllable. It resulted in words like 'toremovedht' and 'hot and removedy'.

It was pleasantly nostalgic, with memories of Fark and its attractive and successful African-Americans.

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of when bOINGbOING started using “disemvowelment” on comments the mods flagged. The comment remained but all vowels were removed.

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

I discovered that lemmy.world uses Scunthorpe Problem filtering when having a conversation about the word "sniggering"

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago

One of the reason i don't have an account there like sometimes you just have to say "fucking hell what the fuck" instead of " removed removed what the removed " you know not every curse ever typed is insulting someone . I do understand that you need to cendor words which are racist or sexist but the rest should'nt be censored.

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

In the future you can just insult people by calling them removed.

Steve Huffman is a removed little removed

[-] THE_MASTERMIND@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

removed you

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

It's what you see when a user (or admin?) deletes their post/comment.

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

No It’s in the middle of a sentence or removed like mine.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago

Because we live in a censorship culture. It is very common these days to attempt to solve problems by deleting content.

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk -5 points 8 months ago

Probably bigotry and racism being removed by the slur filter.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 8 months ago

Mostly it's just innocent bystander vocabulary

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

Which, unfortunately, is what mostly is controlled when censorship is applied.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Better ten innocent people be punished, than one guilty person to free.

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