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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hexbear was an absolute shitshow when they defederated from it so I don’t blame them. It’s now merely a shitmonologue. I’m pissed about dbzero, though. Is the word filter a real thing? Because I’ve been baiting people into acting out their malignant racist fantasies through promises of word filters and I’d hate to know that they exist in some capacity.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they just ublocked the dbzero. Or at least I saw a post about it recently saying they've unblocked the piracy communities. I assume that's what you're referring to.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s genuinely good news. The unprompted piracy censorship was just weird.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I got the impression that it wasn't exactly unprompted and that they had been being overwhelmed with take down requests. Like it or not, Lemmy instances do have to follow the laws of their local jurisdiction. Which means responding to take down requests when applicable. The post suggested that until they had tools to better manage that, they had to block them, but have unblocked them now which implies that they have those tools.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm torn here, absolutely fuck hexbear and Lemmygrad, but also, fuck that heavy censorship garbage right back to Facebook where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Function first. Hexbear users on hexbear aren’t used to responding to people without reaction image barrages or endless effectively semantical arguments, and most people outside hexbear aren’t fans of that. Defederating the troll instance is just downright reasonable, not even getting into politics. They’ve chilled a bit since the initial excitement over federation. A. Bit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The word filter is very much a thing, yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m going to need someone from .world to reply with a few examples of censored words to be sure. Anything from ****** to ****.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Let's go!

Shit, fuck, ass, asshole, cunt, pussy, vagina, dick, cock, penis, prick, sex, screw, shag, bitch, bastard, bastich, damn, god, fag, faggot, motherfucker, unclefucker, horsefucker, suicide, kill yourself, retard, retarded, nigga, nigger, Margaret Thatcher.

Let me know if I missed a spot.

Edit: Took a while to take effect but now we can see that they remove the long form of fag and "hard r".

Furthermore the same words got censored on my comments from lemmy.world AND sh.itjust.works, so my guess is that the filtering comes actually from lemmy.ml. Other instances may have a different list.

Isn't science fun?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait... account switch didn't work. Is this my .world account?

Edit: Yes it is! Aw shit, here we go again...

Shit, fuck, ass, asshole, cunt, pussy, vagina, dick, cock, penis, prick, sex, screw, shag, bitch, bastard, bastich, damn, god, fag, removed, motherfucker, unclefucker, horsefucker, suicide, kill yourself, retard, retarded, nigga, removed, Margaret Thatcher.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Margaret Thatcher

Shitty censorship filters seem to ignore the most depraved words sadly..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Margaret Thatcher

Fucking lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The r-tard one is a notable example.