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How do you feel about the level of censorship in your current instance ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since Lemmy is federated, and the admins of each instance choose what’s allowed and what’s not in their own instance.

How do you feel about what’s allowed and what’s not in your current instance ?

I’ll start: I’ve read people complaining about my instance admins, but I haven’t experienced nor seen anything I specifically disagree with.

And I’ve read things they wrote that I absolutely agree with, like not federating with Meta under any circumstances.

So for now, I’m happy with it. If I get banned randomly, I don’t think I’d go to a different instance, though. I’d probably just stop visiting Lemmy altogether.

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

But ya can’t see the word bitch (or a bunch of other swears)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh no, not the tyranny of the regular expression filtering of a few bigoted words! This is fascism!

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

Bitch isn’t a bigoted word lawl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's misogynistic, pretty clear cut bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not if you’re calling something cool “bitchin’”!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I only see removed but this comment makes me think of female dogs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yerp, that’s exactly correct hahaha

Other instances don’t remove words

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Definitely an example of an over the top word removal, while I get it could be purposeful with some words

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The root word is baked in misogyny, that doesn't change that dynamic.