So, not sure if I am completely off base here, but I had this odd thing happen today where I couldn’t post an URL because whenever I did, part of it would be replaced with the text removed. You can see what I am talking about in the screenshot, and I am linking my comment below. Another commenter replied saying it was likely something related to a slur filter in my instance, so I am coming here for help to understand the issue. Sorry if this is completely wrong, I am not very well versed in the workings of the fediverse and different instance implementations. Here’s the comment:
https://lemmy.world/comment/10534403
EDIT: if it matters, I am using the Boost for Lemmy android client
it’s removed from our slur filter now
Just out of sheer curiosity, do you know what might have gotten it added in the first place? Is it a substring of some obscure slur? Substring of some spam domain or something?
Anyway, thanks for the fix
it was a significant part of the brand of a spam/advertisement campaign several months ago
Testing:
theapp
Testing the URL I was sharing:
https://theappendix.net/issues/2013/10/local-history-feet-first
Edit: thanks, it works!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
What’s old is new again.
Theapp theapp theapp Theapp tһeapp
theapptheapptheapp theapp The**app thea**pp theapp theappTheapp
theapp
Theapp
If you see this message federated, I don’t think it’s censored, but if you see this message through lemmyworld it is censored
Ha, thanks for the reference. Now I am trying to think of what offensive word “the app” could be a substring for
Maybe someone just really wants us to use the website.
That doesn’t seem likely in 2024
In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn
Absolutely no way this guy wasn’t teased every which way to Sunday in school with that name LMAO
Huh interesting, it’s censored in L.W but not in my instance, which I would assume it would have been since it would federate through l.w.
Really, what’s so dangerous about a theapp?
Depends who posted it too
Testing: theapp
It only matters what instance you’re logged into when viewing. Lemmy.World has a censor filter. Nobody else, that I’ve seen, does.
Edit: MrKaplan apparently removed it from the filter only moments ago.
lemmy.ml famously censors “bitch”.
Edit: for my dot ml friends, “a female dog”
It also blocked emails sent in Welsh because it did not recognise the language.
Highly recommend reading the Examples section of that page
Censorship is dumb as fuck and lazy. The sites that do this are as fucking stupid as the religious pearl clutchers out there getting mad when we say “God damn it” or “fucking Christ”. Grow up you dipshit control freaks.
I’m fine with censoring spam personally (which was what the filter was originally doing, per lemmyworld admins).
I’m also fine with using ublock to censor ads fwiw.
theapp
See mod comment t, they removed the filter
I can’t see any mod comment, not sure why
theapp
theapp
the**app
Why would it filter the***app? Make it make sense.
Seriously though, why? I’m not a native speaker so I think there’s something going over my head here. Someone please explain.
Testing in comment: removed
Yep, the string “the app” as one word gets removed
I thought they removed the stupid slur list a long time ago. That’s stupid. Also theapp.
Did you check your phone or computer’s text shortcuts? Has it ever happened for any other words?
Using on a mobile app, not sure what you mean text shortcuts? Like auto complete? At first I thought it might copying the URL from Firefox with an extension that cleans trackers in URLs, but, not typed it manually several times, appears in the comment editor just fine, then shows removed when I post
