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Mods/Admins - Please remove the 'gay slur' from the slur filter" - it's stupid (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/feddituk@feddit.uk
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IGNORE: This is happening at lemmy.world, not here. See my screenshots showing the censorship which happens at lemmy.world end.

This is all very exciting to figure out.

Original post...

I'm going to post a bug report to Lemmy but it seems my comment body that contains about 6 instances of the f-word gets blocked from posting at all.

Post body I intended is below. Posts with the f-word in get blocked entirely.

Comments get the word censored. The filtering is fucking idiotic and over-zealous.

TLDR: WHY IS A UK SERVER BLOCKING MENTION OF A UK FOODSTUFF?

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[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y'all can't say faggot over there? Maybe you should hop over to kBin.

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just checked on the original instance and the post is showing up on feddit.uk

Who exactly is keeping you from saying fag?

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, so it doesn't show up on lemmy.world

Odd.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Very odd but your comments aren't the only ones. There's a 17 vs 29 (12 comment) difference between the 2 instances.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK this is weird.

My comments as both users are showing immediately on both instances. YOU aren't showing on Lemmy.world though. I was gonna see if your "fag" propogated but none of your comments have gone across.

Comment counts here are at 29 (as of commenting)

Comment counts on Lemmy.world are at 16 (as of commenting)

There's a TON of missing comments over there.

See original from Lemmy.world here: https://lemmy.world/post/10877187

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Here's two different posts—both hosted on .World—which don't show up when I view the original .world instance.

I had thought maybe .world half defederated (sending posts out but not letting them in) from kbin.social due perhaps to kbin.social's slight spam problem at times.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see your example from my lemmy server (and client, eternity)

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you see the posts which have fag, faggot in them and if yes are the words unaltered as they display?

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, everything appears unaltered - at least I assume so! Here's a partial screenshot:

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[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it a specifically lemmy.World thing do ya think?

On further checking kbin posts don't even seem to federate there so I can't check.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems like a reasonable assumption, at least if I'm understanding everything correctly.

[–] kux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i just checked https://lemmy.world/instances and kbin.social is there under linked instances

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is yeah. I'm the OG poster with a new account on Feddit.UK. Look at my original post and the censored words:

I wonde rif people are downvoting me cos I just look like I'm ranting about nothing. 🤣

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I wonde rif people are downvoting me cos I just look like I’m ranting about nothing. 🤣

I don't know if perhaps there are downvotes that don't federate to us, but on kbin votes are public and no one seems to have downvoted you.