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?
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)
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
Removed by mod
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:
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.
Well that’s fuckin slow
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.
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.
Where’s the inconsistency
You say that like it’s a bad thing
Socialists not being assholes to fellow marginalized people makes sense, actually.
When have you seen calls for murder?
I don’t think a lot of people are using the “guillotine landlords” imagery ironically.
are executions murder, though?
I personally believe so, at least. I guess whether the murder can be justified or not is a separate question.
I mean, yes? Although generally speaking, the word execution is reserved for cases where they’ve been deemed to deserve it.
For example, most of the executions ordered during the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution were simply murders of people who were even suspected of dissent.
Specifically, it’s when it’s sanctioned through the legal system (as opposed to murders, including state-sanctioned but extra-judicial killings)
So I think executions are not murder by definition
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.
Go back to your reddit echochamber lmao
