You should leave lemmy.ml, they have a profanity filter which doesn't consider the language.
(before anyone comments, yes I know they call it a slur filter, but it also blocks some mild profanity so it isn't just for slurs)
Profanity filtering should always be client side, along with all moderation
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.
TIL “lent” is a slur
/s
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.
The "Slur filter" is a server setting. The filter makes use of a "regex" (a text matching algorithm) to automatically remove any text that matches those words. An admin needs to explicitly set the rules for that regex. The regex does not take language into account, it is a simple text matching algorithm.
The box is in the Admin settings page and looks like this:
I know that lemmy.ml makes use of a strict set of regex rules. The translation of the french word for "late" matches an ableist slur in English, and so it is removed by lemmy.ml. ~~I am not sure about whether you can check regex for each individual server, but I believe that most instances don't filter that specific word out.~~
EDIT: Ah, I found out how to check the regex. You can check an instance's regex by going to the the URL https://{instance}.{TLD}/api/v3/site and looking for "slur_filter_regex". For example, for lemmy.ml you would go to:
Well that’s fuckin slow
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.
But c*nt isn't censored on Aussie.zone as it is acceptable in Aus 😁
Nothing is censored over here as lodion isn't a shithead
That's good to know.
I was just pointing out cunt of all words shouldn't be banned in Aus, How many cu in the NT stickers do you see on cars? They're pretty common here in Brissy.
Read Rule 3 in the sidebar
what fucking profanity filter? damned if I've ever seen it
It's a misnomer. It's actually a slur filter
Oh, well that's all right then
It blocks bitch and cunt, neither of which are slurs.
Those are both misogynistic slurs.
At least in Australia, they are very common gender neutral insults. Never heard anyone use it as a slur over here, but I've no clue how people in your country use them
"common" and "insult" I believe, but if you think a word that refers to a female dog and a word that refers to a female sex organ are gender-neutral, well...
It's about cultural context, c*nt is deployed in reference both to men and women in Australia
Fuck if I know.
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