This seems to be becoming the hot topic, the elephant in the chatroom - the balance between censorship / freedom of speech on lemmy. There are solid arguments for both ways, and good compromises too.
IMO the FAQ makes it quite clear what the devs have built here, and why. But recent discussions, arguments, make it clear that a lot of the most vocal users object to it.
I’m very curious. Many active users feel this way? Please vote using the up arrows in the comments.
Except it is. Just not from the frontend. It’s actually extremely easy to search for the slur filter in the source code and edit it (we instructed a Danish instance to do this because some benign words in Danish look like slurs in English). It actually doesn’t take much effort to edit the filter and recompile for a specific instance, and I think if you’re going to be administering a public facing server, you should be able to do that.
However, most of the freeze peach crowd that actively want to drop slurs (note, not just swear words like shit and fuck, those aren’t “censored”, but slurs, words pretty much specifically meant to insult people, often an already marginalized group) are turned off by the very existence of the slur filter, which I imagine stops a lot of them from coming over. To me, that means the slur filter is mostly effective.
Hmm…well if it’s so easily configurable that’s not too bad. It would be nice if you could configure it in the FE tho, but making it easily editable is a HUGE step in the right direction. Good to know that this is the case, ty
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