Censorship is dumb as fuck and lazy. The sites that do this are as fucking stupid as the religious pearl clutchers out there getting mad when we say "God damn it" or "fucking Christ". Grow up you dipshit control freaks.
Just out of sheer curiosity, do you know what might have gotten it added in the first place? Is it a substring of some obscure slur? Substring of some spam domain or something?
Using on a mobile app, not sure what you mean text shortcuts? Like auto complete?
At first I thought it might copying the URL from Firefox with an extension that cleans trackers in URLs, but, not typed it manually several times, appears in the comment editor just fine, then shows removed when I post
huh. I was going to guess this was something to do with that creepy (how's that for understatement) "the happening" celebrity porn leak thing that happened.
Not only are they heavily censoring content and comments, they do it at the database level so there's no mod log of the events, and users are unaware that their content has been removed.
You can still see that your comment has been removed, but you can't see the biased mass removals of content, like mass purging all China critical comments from a post, unless you're quick enough to screenshot the modlog.
They're purging the modlog somehow. I received a message from an admin of another instance who let me know that he happened to see my comment disappear, but he couldn't figure out how it was removed because there was no record of it. When I went back to the comment to check, it looked like it was still there to me. So, I'm not sure exactly what they're doing, but they're doing something funky.
I also got banned from all communities on .ml that I had participated in after making a joke about how Tienanmen Square was like a glue trap for tankies. Really bad image for Lemmy. Considering we're growing as a community, I don't see why we should allow authoritarians to participate. Allowing that will just ingratiate their standards into the culture of the platform.
Do it defederate the bloody bastards. Admins are now banning people from all .ml communities for disagreeing on a different community. I believe some guy got banned from all .ml communities for posting things .ml didnt like about tianamin square.
But is everyone there a fascist? Or just some/most admins/mods? If everyone (not just mods, but users too) or most were, sure.
I'd be willing to bet that most aren't or even know about it. Defederating due to what some admins and where the majority of users don't know sounds like "throwing out the baby with the bathwater."
Not just the mods but the admins are using the deceptive database manipulation practices. i.e. this is not a fixable problem by merely appealing one layer up from a mod of a community - the only layer above admins is defederation from the Fediverse overall, which is what OP is advocating.
It is a pain yes, but also it only takes 2 clicks to migrate your settings from one instance to another - go to Settings and under "Import/Export Settings" click the big Export button, then in the new click Import. With a similar iconic avatar and name, people likely won't even notice the difference. Your old comments/posts/points won't transfer though. Bonus: you can keep both, so while e.g. one instance is upgrading you still have another with which to read/reply/etc.
People on lemmy.ml are going to notice a noticeably reduced functionality over the next several months regardless, as many, Many, MANY users start blocking the instance on a personal/user level even if not an instance-wide block. Imagine every single comment you write receives 10x fewer replies back, or votes, just you shouting into the void, and the only people responding back... are the fascists, and those more neutral to fascism.
So OP is bringing up the problem, which is the first step towards healing. :-)
I'd be willing to bet that most aren't or even know about it. Defederating due to what some admins and where the majority of users don't know
So are they Nazis if they don't know they're sitting at a table with a Nazi? Of course not. That saying only works when they knowingly accept it. It really is as simple as that.
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