• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Because two of the big platforms might cut off your traffic for using any of a long list of arbitrary words.

      It’s pretty fucking disgusting to self censor inoffensive language because an app might stop showing your memes to other mouthbreathers.

      • hitmyspot
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        8 months ago

        Or disgusting that algorithms with arbitrary rules comtrol so much of what so many people see.

      • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
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        8 months ago

        It’s pretty fucking disgusting to self censor inoffensive language

        It’s disgusting to need to do it. I won’t blame poster/commenter for doing it so that their shit doesn’t get deleted.

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          8 months ago

          They don’t need to do it, their post wont get deleted. It will only not get promoted by the platform, it can still be shared and viewed directly by users.

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        8 months ago

        not only that, but by using munged language like that you’re effectively making peoples blocklists on trigger words utterly fucking useless.

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      8 months ago

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I was looking for the notes on ab* for a while before I realized. It really seems weird