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minus-squareNik282000linkfedilinkEnglish107•1 year agoBecause 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.
minus-square@hitmyspot@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish19•1 year agoOr disgusting that algorithms with arbitrary rules comtrol so much of what so many people see.
minus-square@EndlessNightmare@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year 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.
minus-squareNik282000linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoThey 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.
minus-square@Taleya@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agonot only that, but by using munged language like that you’re effectively making peoples blocklists on trigger words utterly fucking useless.
minus-square@riplin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish30•1 year ago**** ********* *** ********? **** ******* ******** *******! **** ******* ***.
minus-square@Yondoza@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish23•1 year agoJeez, right in the *********? Brutal.
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilinkEnglish18•edit-21 year agoOn some platforms OCR reads it and filters.
minus-square@Railcar8095@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoI was looking for the notes on ab* for a while before I realized. It really seems weird
minus-square@yannic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoProbably tangentially related to June 4, 1989.
Why do they censor ‘aubsive’?
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.
Or disgusting that algorithms with arbitrary rules comtrol so much of what so many people see.
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.
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.
not only that, but by using munged language like that you’re effectively making peoples blocklists on trigger words utterly fucking useless.
**** ********* *** ********?
**** ******* ******** *******!
**** ******* ***.
Jeez, right in the *********? Brutal.
** shreds, *** ***?
Act*al psychology
On some platforms OCR reads it and filters.
Fuck th*se pl*tforms, th*n.
Because they’re annoying.
You mean anno*ing?
It’s a b*d word
I was looking for the notes on ab* for a while before I realized. It really seems weird
Probably tangentially related to June 4, 1989.