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?

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours 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.

  • heggs_bayer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    It’s more of a slur filter than a profanity filter. People can say fuck and shit and ass and the like, but slurs that dehumanize certain groups of people are a no go. In your case, it involves an ableist slur for dehumanizing people with intellectual disabilities. Other words that get caught in the filter include the N word, the F slur for dehumanizing homosexuals, b*tch and c*nt which people consider misogynist for some reason, and some others that escape me at the moment.

    The fact that your speaking a different language shows why most people think the slur filter is dumb af.

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    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.

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    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.