On Lemmy, there's no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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Let's just get this out of the way...
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits. And sometimes fart turd twat bitch.
Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.
Whatever is censored is being filtered by your instance.
I fucking love the fact that im instance admin
Okay Iβm going to eat the onion. What are words 5 and the last one?
C o c k s u c k e r is word 5. T i t s is the last one on that sentence. B i t c h is the last word of the post.
Lemmy.ml sucks. I really need to move on.
I fucked your mom
I haven't heard that song in ages
They played it in their most recent tour. Great setlist
That's awesome. I had it on a compilation record from fat wreck called, "Short Music for Short People" had like 100+ songs and the rule was they had to be 30 seconds or less. Had some bangers, that one included.
My mind auto harmonized with this comment
Fuck, shit, pussy, ass, motherfucking, damn, bitch Bitch, damn, motherfucking, ass, pussy, shit, fuck
-Chop Chop Slide
Comes from the social media platforms that auto remove stories that contain certain words. Tiktok, Instagram, etc.
I've seen that for words that are considered to be 'triggers', as if saying 'r@pe' is somehow different at all than just using the normal vowel.
A lot of it comes from Tiktok culture. YouTube has started doing it too.
Videos that say "kill", "rape", "died", etc are all deprioritized by the algorithm if not demonetized entirely.
People have been editing subtitles to avoid these words, and the behavior spread.
That makes sense.
I suspect it's largely become a habit from people being on platforms that have automatic blocked word filters.
I have been watching Rick and Morty lately and every now and then I have to change the site to find a version of the episode I'm watching where swear words aren't censored. Like, it's a show made for adults full of violent and sexual themes, so I think that most viewers have heard the word "fuck" before. I hate it so much when people censor "bad words", even though nothing prevents them from saying them.
One show where removing the censor was a detriment: Metalocalypse. They used a guitar sound on our first few seasons, and replacing that with the actual a wear words was justβ¦ less funny? Iβve never felt that way about a show before, or since.
Because instances have language filters. On lemmy.ml you can't say "female dog", it shows as "removed"
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Habit. If I name my folder "Pron," then nobody who sees my desktop will know what's in it.
I have noticed that my phone will autocorrect/misrecognize some swears. Fuck is often duck.
At least on android, i find you can enable offensive words in keyboard settings to fix this
I am not going to login to see it, but I appreciate your effort. π
Didnt realise you had to login to see nsfw models. Thats the model in question:
"Free speech warriors" when people choose to self-censor
Generally I don't care about words like bitch, fuck, shit, but there are certain servers and communities where cusses or other words are used harmfully towards groups that the community or server is inteded to be a supportive place for, and when they come up in discussion, even just as examples as what was said to them are rightfully censored or have a trigger warning placed in front.
Community mods and server operators can get overboard with this but they get that privilege because they do the work to moderate it anyway.
What about n-word? You're thinking about that word right now. Makes no difference wether I use the actual word or not.
Well, words like "fuck" or "shit" don't indicate harm and aren't supposed to offend people, so I think people should censor slurs but not swear words. Like, I'm autistic and feel kinda bad whenever I see the r-word being thrown around (I assume that some people have similar experiences with racial slurs), but I don't get the same feeling if someone says "fuck".
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I have a habit born out of having young kids around of cartoonizing more expressive language that leaks over into online conversations. There might be a bit of that going on along side the more censorship style responses put out elsewhere.
@Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz Depending on which platform it's on, it would auto-detect any profanity so it the way to bypass it