Seriously though idk if automatically censoring certain words is a good idea. Seems like it both makes discussion about those words harder (especially by the people they apply to) and blinds people to legitimately hateful content that just doesn't happen to use particular words.
It being baked into Lemmy makes it much harder for reactionaries to enjoy using Lemmy, which means when it federates leftists are going to have an easier time dominating the space. It's not terribly hard to talk about the obvious racism behind the word and there's no legimate use of the word that isn't criticizing it. If anything, if the filter gets tripped it should show up in the mod queue so it's easier to bring the hammer down if it wasn't used in the rare situation where it'd be acceptable.
hm, i wonder how they'll handle ‘censorship’ when we have federation. maybe you can ‘trust’ users of specific instances more strongly and correspondingly value their up/down votes more than others in auto-hiding bad takes.
Seriously though idk if automatically censoring certain words is a good idea. Seems like it both makes discussion about those words harder (especially by the people they apply to) and blinds people to legitimately hateful content that just doesn't happen to use particular words.
It being baked into Lemmy makes it much harder for reactionaries to enjoy using Lemmy, which means when it federates leftists are going to have an easier time dominating the space. It's not terribly hard to talk about the obvious racism behind the word and there's no legimate use of the word that isn't criticizing it. If anything, if the filter gets tripped it should show up in the mod queue so it's easier to bring the hammer down if it wasn't used in the rare situation where it'd be acceptable.
Oh, I didn't know it was baked into Lemmy. That makes sense, then.
hm, i wonder how they'll handle ‘censorship’ when we have federation. maybe you can ‘trust’ users of specific instances more strongly and correspondingly value their up/down votes more than others in auto-hiding bad takes.
just say mods are libs
I agree. I think algorithms and systems on itself cannot correctly assess intent.
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