• Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
    31·
    11 months ago

    This thing. This thing always confuses me. Sometimes I see ‘removed’ and sometimes I can actually read the words people write. I’m always reading from my Mander account, why the disparity? I can read b*t.ch in your post but I often come across removeds

    • Vlyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      If a lemmy.ml user types ‘bitch’ in a comment it will actually get replaced with ‘removed’. They just won’t notice it until they check their own comments. That might be the reason why you see ‘removed’ even though your instance doesn’t have an active slur filter.

      • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        So, when I see “bitch” is because the user isn’t from lemmy.ml? Jerboa doesn’t display the domains along the usernames unless I visit the profiles.

        • Vlyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Yep! It only gets censored in two cases:

          1. You are on an instance that censors words like this (e.g. lemmy.ml)

          2. The user who wrote the comment is on an instance that censors this word (which actually replaces it in the comment), everyone sees it censored then

          • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            What about the edge case where someone actually says removed? Like the actual verb, to remove, but italicized and in the past tense. Someone could then infer incorrectly that you’re saying a slur word instead of the verb to take away.