I’m on lemmy.ml but as I’m French, I was reading this comment and was surprised to see removed instead of the french word for “late”.
Is there anything I can do on my end or is it a server setting and I should move to a French one?
That’s tied to the instance. The French word for slow is the same as a word commonly used as an insult in English, so the .ml devs have it baked in to their slur filter.
It’s more of a slur filter than a profanity filter. People can say fuck and shit and ass and the like, but slurs that dehumanize certain groups of people are a no go. In your case, it involves an ableist slur for dehumanizing people with intellectual disabilities. Other words that get caught in the filter include the N word, the F slur for dehumanizing homosexuals, b*tch and c*nt which people consider misogynist for some reason, and some others that escape me at the moment.
The fact that your speaking a different language shows why most people think the slur filter is dumb af.
Yeah it’s server-side with .ml. You can switch to a French instance, or I imagine many English-speaking instances don’t block that word. I guess you can try view that comment from different instances to check.
Read Rule 3 in the sidebar
Well that’s fuckin slow
Fuck if I know.
Lemme.ml: Where you can call for murder and warfare against meat eaters and landlords, but don’t even think about saying a no-no word, mister!
Edit: funny how all the negative comments flood in at once, almost like folks clocked in for work.
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Socialists not being assholes to fellow marginalized people makes sense, actually.
Where’s the inconsistency
When have you seen calls for murder?
I don’t think a lot of people are using the “guillotine landlords” imagery ironically.
Literally anytime CEOs, billionaires, or landlords come up. And not like euphemistic “eat the rich” type statements, tankie shit about literally murdering landowners (but also about how Tianemen Square was ok/just US propaganda, Russia has a right to Ukraine, and the CCP is truly progressive and respects human rights).
It’s so funny to me how lemmy libs lose their shit any time they encounter someone to the left of them.
