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?

  • eatham 🇭🇲@aussie.zone
    72·
    2 days ago

    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)

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Salamander@mander.xyz
    7·
    3 days ago

    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:

    https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/site

  • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
    1523·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • RubicTopaz@lemmy.world
      112·
      3 days ago

      You say that like it’s a bad thing

      Socialists not being assholes to fellow marginalized people makes sense, actually.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.world
        61·
        3 days ago

        I don’t think a lot of people are using the “guillotine landlords” imagery ironically.

          • Stovetop@lemmy.world
            4·
            3 days ago

            I personally believe so, at least. I guess whether the murder can be justified or not is a separate question.

          • Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            5·
            3 days ago

            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.

            • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              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

      • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
        413·
        3 days ago

        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).