growing up with a single mom, an older sister, and a younger sister… there were only a couple word that were never acceptable
I could say shit fuck asshole motherfucker and so on
but the words Cnt and Btch were absolutely unacceptable
I remember one time, I was about to call my little sister a B*tch and I didn’t even know my mom was in the room but before I could even get the word out of my mouth, she smacked me so hard. I was like BUT THEY SAY IT ON TV SO IT MUST BE OK. Yeah that was the day I got a good lesson in how rules work for something and not for other but the rules mom makes are the only real rules you have to follow in life
You can tag me whatever makes your ego feel better. I guess everything goes (including insults) but discuss the topic and reply the questions. You just proved my point ahahah
I actually teach the kids in my life that intent is more important than “magic naughty words,” so they can say bitch all they want so long as they aren’t being hateful. So maybe starting from the assumption that the status quo is reasonable and has merit isn’t the smartest idea?
Literally any non-ml instance would be a way better choice. Also avoid hexbear. The rest are pretty solid. I’m happy with speed of Lemmus.org, but lemmy.world worked fine for me too.
Might want to consider piefed instances as well, it’s a fediverse front-end not developed by the weaklings that decided to censor your innocuous words.
Lemmy.ml apparently. When you type B…I…T…C…H it automatically turns to removed. They’re treating you like some kid who can’t handle grown-up words. Switch to another instance if you want more freedom with your choice of words.
Lemmy.ml banned me on my Startrek.website account years ago during the height of my posting. Like when I was posting 20 things every hour or two. Why? Posted some Jimmy Neutron meme about Disney having a first gay character and it being the 14th one this month. Title was like “Can always be the first in China at least for a couple minutes” or something along those lines.
From what I heard from some of the people who worked on .ml behind the scenes, they had to reverse the ban because a bunch of people started asking why there was no new content and other people started to realize it was because I had gotten banned.
Have never posted on lemmy.ml since and don’t bother to interact with the instance at all. I don’t have it blocked because not all users are like the admins but like fuck am I ever adding to that shithole ever again. I thought that was the worst I’d ever deal with from admins… and then I started getting personally harassed by the startrek.website admins across multiple websites and basically forgot about lemmy.ml entirely.
Idk if something has changed but I think this is a baseless claim.
If it’s just visual gamification…we’ve sort of already come out against that, since we discourage karma-seeking by not displaying user’s comment and post score totals.
Yeah I pretty much know that, and consider the lack of a karma score a feature not a bug of Lemmy. It’s just the obvious joke to crack on the subject of a social credit score on the fediverse.
So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.
Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.
We’re all down to shit on new-deal-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics, but you realize america’s had this for decades? Getting upset that it’s some uniquely chinese novelty is a little infuriating, as someone who has been doxxed and denied housing by that crap.
Well, there is a type of censorship I guess. Some apps don’t allow people to post bad words like 卧槽，and so on. So people usually abbreviate the bad words to the first letter of each pinyin. So 卧槽 becomes “wc”.
This isn’t just for bad words tho, there’s many online slangs like xswl which means 笑死我了, and many more.
Who the fuck censors removed… You’re even allowed to say removed on TV
Bitch whaat ?
growing up with a single mom, an older sister, and a younger sister… there were only a couple word that were never acceptable
I could say shit fuck asshole motherfucker and so on
but the words Cnt and Btch were absolutely unacceptable
I remember one time, I was about to call my little sister a B*tch and I didn’t even know my mom was in the room but before I could even get the word out of my mouth, she smacked me so hard. I was like BUT THEY SAY IT ON TV SO IT MUST BE OK. Yeah that was the day I got a good lesson in how rules work for something and not for other but the rules mom makes are the only real rules you have to follow in life
Your mom sounds like a bitch
Ah yes, child abuse, the best way to teach kids not to use slurs. /s
Lmao
Edit: wait did you do that on purpose?
Holy fuck that can’t be real. I’m almost convinced to make an account just to see if they’re trolling. Is this how they recruit?
lemmy.ml is run by nannie-state fucktards that masturbate with such silly displays of power.
Well aa long as there’s consent
Well, since the poster had their own comment censored, obviously not.
Implied. Not obvious. They could be into that.
Your instance does…
any recommendations on where to jump ship to?
The level of shit .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear users receive for no good reason leaves me always speechless.
You shouldn’t say b.itch in person, we don’t teach kids to say it, why is it crazy to moderate them?
I just tagged you as “bitch”, you bitch.
You can tag me whatever makes your ego feel better. I guess everything goes (including insults) but discuss the topic and reply the questions. You just proved my point ahahah
I actually teach the kids in my life that intent is more important than “magic naughty words,” so they can say bitch all they want so long as they aren’t being hateful. So maybe starting from the assumption that the status quo is reasonable and has merit isn’t the smartest idea?
Literally any non-ml instance would be a way better choice. Also avoid hexbear. The rest are pretty solid. I’m happy with speed of Lemmus.org, but lemmy.world worked fine for me too.
Might want to consider piefed instances as well, it’s a fediverse front-end not developed by the weaklings that decided to censor your innocuous words.
I should do that too…
sh.itjust.works is awesome. The admins are cool as shit, and as you can tell from the name, there’s no BS censorship.
@nukeforyou2@lemmy.ml don’t tell anybody* but The Dude (admin) somehow keeps this place blazingly fast, super fast updates, the whole enchilada
99% renewable energy powered too apparently if you’re into that
Lazy linkin’ it just in case too sh.itjust.works/signup
*everybody excepted
Holy shit is this a joke or did they actually remove the word bitch?
They definitely removed the word removed, those bitches
Lemmy.ml apparently. When you type B…I…T…C…H it automatically turns to removed. They’re treating you like some kid who can’t handle grown-up words. Switch to another instance if you want more freedom with your choice of words.
Lemmy.ml banned me on my Startrek.website account years ago during the height of my posting. Like when I was posting 20 things every hour or two. Why? Posted some Jimmy Neutron meme about Disney having a first gay character and it being the 14th one this month. Title was like “Can always be the first in China at least for a couple minutes” or something along those lines.
From what I heard from some of the people who worked on .ml behind the scenes, they had to reverse the ban because a bunch of people started asking why there was no new content and other people started to realize it was because I had gotten banned.
Have never posted on lemmy.ml since and don’t bother to interact with the instance at all. I don’t have it blocked because not all users are like the admins but like fuck am I ever adding to that shithole ever again. I thought that was the worst I’d ever deal with from admins… and then I started getting personally harassed by the startrek.website admins across multiple websites and basically forgot about lemmy.ml entirely.
Blocking an instance only blocks you from seeing communities there, it doesn’t block you from seeing users posting in other communities.
What kind of bitches censor bitches? Like, what’s wrong with my dogs?
Holy shit sprog is here too! Big fan
Wait until you meet Margot Robbie and President Biden, who posted here in the early days and definitely wasn’t me.
Are you the legendary Poem for your sprog of yore?!
They are just trying to be like the CCP, their heroes. Wait until they roll out their social credit system in upcoming Lemmy releases!
Are they going to implement Reddit-style karma?
Idk if something has changed but I think this is a baseless claim.
That is a 3 years old comment, but I can’t find anything newer (mostly looking at GitHub) suggesting Lemmy devs have any intention of adding karma
Yeah I pretty much know that, and consider the lack of a karma score a feature not a bug of Lemmy. It’s just the obvious joke to crack on the subject of a social credit score on the fediverse.
https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-untangling-myth-reality
Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent “ebil ccp” systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.
Yup, the United States government sucks. However, the Chinese government also sucks.
Which has nothing to do with the myth of a social credit score…
We’re all down to shit on new-deal-capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics, but you realize america’s had this for decades? Getting upset that it’s some uniquely chinese novelty is a little infuriating, as someone who has been doxxed and denied housing by that crap.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChineseLanguage/comments/uob3rv/are_curse_words_censored/i8dcxjz/
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/12/censor/
— John Gilmore, founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation