• irreticent@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 days ago

    Side subject, sorry for my aside: I’m starting to really get annoyed at the censorship on my instance.

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      9 days ago

      Weird, I’m a .world account too and I see what the comment said just fine

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      You can export all your subscriptions pretty easily so you can sign up to a different instance and import everything over. Check Lemmy settings.

      • irreticent@lemmy.worldOP
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        9 days ago

        I’m honestly curious what that porn fetish was that it was so bad to be censored. Anyone off-world able to enlighten me?

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          8 days ago

          It’s the short hand version of Transexual. Tran-ny is what got censored.

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          9 days ago

          That would be porn featuring people who were born as a boy or a girl by mistake, and who have since tried to put that right. Rocky Horror Picture Show has a “sweet” song with the word which is apparently problematic.

    • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Kinda strange that world blocks that word. I’m on a queer instance and I can still see that word, in fact I don’t think I have ever encountered any removed words on my instance.

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        9 days ago

        I’m on .world and I see:

        granted, it was edited an hour after irreticent posted their comment, and I can’t see what it said before. (possibly the OC originally wrote “removed”?)

        • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 days ago

          That would be strange if Annisem literally wrote removed and then changed it to transexual later. Only reasons I can think of is that it was a bizarre attempt at trolling or they really did mean removed and then changed it because people thought it actually got removed. It’s also possible they did originally write a different word such as the t slur which they changed to transexual after seeing that what they originally wrote got removed.

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            9 days ago

            I’m not sure that .world or lemmy at large even has that ability. normally mods would just yeet the entire comment.

            It could have been an attempt at humor, or something. I dunno.

            What I do know is that it’s not censored now.

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            9 days ago

            Agreed that’s weird, no question there, but I don’t think that’s on lemmy or .world. I’m pretty sure they don’t have the ability to censor specific words like that- the response from mods or admin would be to just remove the comment.

            Let’s just be honest, censoring single words is stupid. For one thing, I guarantee you my imagination is going to fill in a much interesting alternative.

            • example@reddthat.com
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              9 days ago

              lemmy does have a regex based slur filter that replaces matched words with removed

              this one was likely caught by lemmy.ml if it was indeed the variant ending in nny, as that one is in their slur filter.

    • Steve@communick.news
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      9 days ago

      Should look at others.
      Unless you actually are a child who can’t handle reading magic words. Then you probably shouldn’t be online at all.