Come to Lemmy. We'll let you say "fuck".
But not removed. Have to say B!tch instead....
Unless you're on Lemmy.world.
They censor no-no words, you'll occasionally see removed in a comment from a Lemmy.world account.
They're also emotional children that ban or defederate anyone who disagrees with them.
Basically, they're reddit v2.
Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat
Not like Lemmy doesn't have a controversial slur filter itself.
Which makes no sense. How are the words picked? Is there a sliding scale, or an objectionable meter somewhere? Who decided that b!tch should be censored, but not cunt or skank?
But that's about it. And god forbid you have differing ideology
There's Lemmygrad if you're that kind of guy... But touching grass is available too.
They moved to Nostr since there they can't be defederated and shut their Lemmy instance down, I bet they'll later claim that us or the ADL shut them down because conspiracy theories are juicier.
Can you say...all words on Lemmy?
Fun fact: until not too long ago there was a language filter built right into Lemmy's source code.
There is a language filter still that any admin can put words into.
But it's not hard coded into the source code
Yes, no predefined list ships in the code, just the ability to add words to the list.
I actually dig it a bit. They're not really censoring themselves, they're still talking about corn and seggs just in a way the app doesn't yet recognize. Take that advertisers!
The term “ungood” also lets you talk about bad things but that doesn’t make it not newspeak. The corporate sanitizing and infantilizing of speech is not a good thing. It’s not the teen’s problem though, it’s the corporations and their desire for a sanitized public square they can plaster ads over.
My wife was telling me about how annoying it is that she'll try listening to new true crime podcasts and they'll shit like "unalived" instead of "killed". Comes across hella disrespectful to the victims.
“Hey there all you horror sweeties, I’ve got a sloppy poppy oopy goopy murder of a three year old little girl brought to you by Squarespace”
Humans have had a taste for the macabre at least for as long as we have written history. Public executions used to be a past time activity (even Jesus' crucifixion is told like it was a public show), the morgue of Paris was a tourist attraction, even the sanitised (and controversial) Body Worlds exhibition has no trouble finding an audience. Maybe what's weird is our relationship with death and putrefaction. It happens to everyone yet it's somehow in bad taste to talk about it.
If I was murdered and the case went cold for a long time, you bet I'd want everyone hearing about it after the case finally gets solved. But that's just me.
I get so annoyed listening to true crime stuff on YouTube these days and having the audio cut out any time a person uses the word suicide or rape, but not the gorey details of murder; no that's perfectly fine to hear every excruciating detail, but lord forbid your precious ears here the letters S-U-I-C-I-D-E in order.
Don't listen to it on YouTube then.
The percentage of women I know that are into murder porn is alarming to me.
It's not (mostly, I can't speak for the weirdos out there) murder porn, though? For a while, it was a movement of almost solidarity with other women, because these stories could easily happen to us. So it was almost like listening to survival tips, as well as paying respects to those lost by trying to learn from their experiences. It probably wasn't a coincedence that the 'true crime wave' happened around the time of Me Too.
And to soothe your mind, true crime as a 'fad' is dying quite a bit. People realized that, hey having a frivolous show where you clown and make cocktails or some shit while talking about real victims just isn't okay.
Source: am a woman who was (and is) interested in true crime, and have spoken to many other women from different circles—and even states/cities—who were also interested in the topic.
It's not exclusive to woman either -- guys (especially young guys) watch police bodycams of shootings, combat footage, and gore-porn TV shows or movies. There were entire subreddits dedicated to actual videos/pictures of people dying -- and I'll give you one guess as to what the demographics of their user bases were.
It's almost as if a lot of people are morbidly curious about death and violence.
True crime has been popular since the 50s and has no signs of winding down.
That's not what I said, is it? I was talking specifically about the more recent spike in popularity.
Edit: Not sure why I'm being down voted for pointing out what I said. I very specifically was talking about the spike in popularity around 2016. I'm not talking about the topic being popular before that, because there is a specific difference in the two time frames, where interest in the topic reached a fever pitch. And yes, it is 'slowing down' compared to said fever pitch ~2016. But 'slowing down' mostly means returning to baseline.
They were talking about chainsaw man
"says le$bian"
Really. Can you spell out phonetically how they say that?
$bian is a variable but it wasn't set, so it's pronounced "le-undefined"
Lecashbian?
Le-dolla-be'in
Not to be confused with L€sbians and £esbians in Europe.
Says he met her on bumble, so I assume she says it like "le$bian"
inb4 prescriptivists coming here to say that writing something isn't "saying" it
Le money sign bian
I'll never forget about 25 years ago cruising around some random chat rooms on mIRC and somebody asked me how the weather was and I said it was a bit chilly and I got instabanned with the message potty mouth... took me a good 5 minutes to workout wtf happened (bit ch)illy
Ah, the Scunthorpe problem, a classic
Does your penis have a tone? I've never noticed one from mine, but maybe I need to pay closer attention 🤔
You haven't heard of tone wood?
Ain't that a bitch? Illy.
That's like shipping a mature coomercel with a school girl
Agreed, I prefer American made spyware
Chinese and Korean made phones, running American software, which was outsourced to India.
What do I get if I catch em all?
Made in china, under complete control of ccp as every big company in china is. It is very unfortunate that younger generation is essentially being raised by tiktok and its algorithm.
Facebook is bad, no doubts about that, it's also unavoidable as the only social media for most people, and it's also not fun for most people. Tiktok on the other hand is interesting, it's captivating, the algorithm tailors it to you, microdoses you with dopamine. I'm sure that same algorithm can be, if desired, used to push pro-china/pro-russia/anti-west narratives to varying degrees of subtlety, tailor-made to each user, to further destabilize certain countries, united states included.
Social media is dangerous, social media controlled by a potential enemy is dangerous on a whole another level.
Big difference between "The US isn't actually the greatest country in the world" (whatever the fuck "greatest" means, they're never too clear about that) and "Uighyurs are dangerous dissident terrorists who need to be re-educated. Any organ donations are purely voluntary."
But then again, I am talking to a CCP shill from lemmygrad. Pretty much pissing into an ocean of piss here.
This right here is the answer.
Yes, we know that our government has done shitty, crazy things to try to control people and they probably aren’t above that today.
They do not have it in their best interest to weaken their own country though. A potentially hostile foreign government does.
I mean, everyone uses it so I hope not. We’ll see I guess.
Saw this often back then on Reddit. People wanting to curse, but the writing f*ck. If you want to curse, curse. If you think it would be too rude to spell out, just fucking don't.
isn't that goofy-ass japanese censorship laws or something
hentai are Animation right? so they have a blurry texture for tits or do they blur it after?
I think they blur ir after. Just Japanese law prevents the showing of genitalia. Not other parts of the body. So only the vagina and penis are normally censored. However is some cases the asshole is censored too but it's not as often I don't think.
It's a setting you can change
Never gonna run around
I had this happen in real life.
A friend of a friend died of cancer complications. I posted a rest in peace type message on Facebook without details.
The next time I saw my mother she asked "I saw your post. Did your friend unalive herself...?". It felt SO insulting and demeaning for her to ask that AND to ask like that.
Thot control*
This is tiktok though.
They are not policing your language. They are using selective language on the posts that they wholly own that you gave them for free.
Preventing people from saying "lesbian" sounds homophobic to me.
CPC regularly disappear gay and lesbian people. Back in 1996 they just publicly executed them.
The terms originated from online censorship but to me using these terms IRL is very similar to people who use internet slang out loud. Might not be censoring herself but just so used to using those terms. It's annoying either way though.
I caught myself saying LOL the other day.
Be careful before it spreads to the
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Edit: I have no idea how to format here. You have to live now with this abomination
Either 3 backticks before and after code block, or 4 spaces at the start of each line
ROFL:ROFL:ROFL:ROFL
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You know, I never questioned where the term roflcopter came from, but I just looked it up and it comes from the WarCraft III forums in 2003. It actually refers to the gyrocopter in the game rather than a helicopter. This has been another...

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I've said stuff like IRL before I'm sure. I didn't mean to sound judgemental but doing it constantly all the time would irritate me TBH IMO FFS.
Jesus, I just remembered the people's champion and roody poo.
Examples?
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-word-filter
desu desu desu desu desu desu
onions
How does one pronounce le$bian?
Please censor Fr#nch it's offensive
Ferme ta yeule maudit tabarnak ça parait que tu suce des criss de queues
With zero shame, apparently
m1113nn1415 n3v32 570pp3d
Everything old is new again. Next up: the resurgence of IRC and parachute pants!
t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m RIDES AGAIN
Gotta love when your orientation is censored
It's Chinese spyware that was specifically and provably designed to dumb down Westerners even more and make the Chinese smarter by specifically showing certain content to people in those countries. Americans then fell for it harder than a billion Trojan horses and remain locked in it's grasp. That one small app took a ton of my respect for humanity away.
That's been proven not to be true, tiktok us matches all the other us social media and tiktok china matches all the other Chinese social media.
US social media is full of greed, scams, flexing, crypto pyramid schemes, and lowest common denominator trash because that's what American culture has been overwhelmed with for decades - did tiktok shit over the history channel? Did they invent MTV? Is it there fault the only movies that are made are comic book repeats?
Just finding a foreigner to blame has been an incredibly popular strategy so through history but it never actually solves the problem at hand it just obscures it so no one ever tries anything effective
So you really not understand what I'm saying? I'm also from neither of those countries but the conversation is about them, acting like China is the evil influence that makes American social media bad is silly when all other American social media is the same.
Idk man. I don't use TikTok and probably never will, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to be able to segregate their entertainment from their intellect.
I'm surprised people downvote that idea. Part of the issue was the hordes of people of... lower intellect flooding into public forums to begin with. Segmenting them out into their own little zoo seems ideal to filter the noise out more effectively.
I meant that it should be possible to appreciate harmlessly stupid or silly/vapid humour without it degrading your ability to also reason critically about serious stuff.
provably designed to dumb down Westerners
Ok, prove it please.
Pick one.
Good reads, thanks!
If I was in the market for a new companion the use of Tik-Tok would be a HARD pass for me.
Same here. Guess we'll both be alone forever.
Roughly one quarter of united states citizens are automatically ruled out for you then
Good.
I loved Ren and Stimpy but I don't remember whatever episode you're talking about.
Do you remember the episode where Ren got split into the two opposite sides of his personality? His evil side, and his indifferent side.
Huh, I don't remember OP's but I do remember this one!
The kids are creating corporate influenced newspeak that infantilizes serious topics instead of moving to a platform without censorship. Teen slang is great when it comes up naturally instead of because advertisers want to sanitize our thoughts so we only think about consuming products.
Cornography
Farmers Only
You don't have to be lonely...
..at farmersonly.corn
Suddenly, a million Iowans scream out in ecstasy.
Well seems this community is no better than the corpos if their mod thinks saying to eliminate Nazis is Bigotry.
If I'm on a platform that penalizes using problematic languages I at least find a poetic way of expressing what I mean. "Suic*de" is fuckin stupid. Escaping this mortal coil of my own volition is cool. Well, it's not, but the words are
"We shouldn't hurt Nazis, Nazis are real people too who deserve love and respect like all other people."
You should go outside more
since when is lesbian a swear or a sensitive word?
then it gets censored in russia and china like they do for nearly all the videos that come from the west, no?
There's a whole tiktok-only meta where people think that adding particular tags or censoring certain words will prevent automod from deleting their post
I'm not sure it even works that way, but it's very common
yeah but the content in the west is different to the one in china. we can't access Chinese tiktok and they can't access ours
It's scary how we seem to be getting closer and closer to 1984.
Newspeak is intended to make more complex thoughts impossible. This isn't newspeak; they're still talking about the topics, they're just using dumb filter workarounds.
Though I do feel it'd be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed
Though I do feel it’d be obnoxious to actually talk like this when not needed
on the one hand, yes. on the other hand, my generation piloted the spoken use of "lol", "lmao", and their myriad variations in pronunciation. this strikes me as merely upholding that proud tradition.
I suppose eventually I'll come around to accepting it, if it persists. But these are not the same; the intent behind them is different. "LOL" is an acronym, not a censorship workaround. Saying it out loud is purely ironic. Maybe the zoomers saying Tiktokisms out loud is also ironic (I've personally never heard it directly), but the reason it exists in the first place is stupid
At first it was ironic, then it just became a muscle memory response.
Plenty of people thought text acronyms were dumb and people were even dumber for saying them, even ironically. This is just you being one of those people for the new generation of "kids these days"
It's a book, I suggest you check out it's themes
Huh, I didn't know that, cool!
Not really? One is done for corporate profit. The other is the state.
End result is the same for us though. It just ends up being someone different enforcing it.
Sure Jan.
Can we take the David Foster Wallace route and say "erased their own map" in place of suicide?
It just sounds cool.
How the fuck does she say lesbian? Ledollarsignbian?
That's just the femdom ones.
I assume she types it out.
It's so much easier to not use TikTok
Young people bad >:[
Seriously we can hate the platform all we want but this isn't even good as a funny response anymore. The ship has sailed and they won't be abandoning it any time soon.
My millennial partner (admittingly adopted the lingo late) approaches strangers with doggos and says things like what a Heckin good pupper, who's a smoll boi etc.
Not surprised at zoomers doing this. Its just more funny on twitter when someone says something like fugg you!
Doggos ARE heckin good boyos
Signed, a Zoomer
Turns out Mormont's raven was actually just a freak
"CORN!"
ITT: people getting crotchety over language evolving
Devolving.
If only we had things that corrected spelling mistakes, let's call them "spellcheckers"
go to feed...
go to feed...
Can't stand it. Censoring yourself so some random ass company can make more ad revenue.
Fuck that.
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