I tried out Lemmy a year or two ago (it seemed nice) but found that they had a hard-coded list of "bad words" that automatically got censored, some of them quite soft (and with dual meaning), like "bitch". So yeah, I quickly uninstalled it once I realized that. How the fuck are you going to run, say, a dog breeding node? Or just have any kind of semi-normal adult discussion where people aren't bothered by cursing? No thanks - as a moderator I (my community) would want to choose what to censor myself.
It might have changed since then but from what I remember of reading through the lead devs reasoning behind the "feature" I want no part of that ecosystem.
Lemmy's devs have a long history of questionable actions and opinions that goes beyond the slur filter. I'm afraid it will forever be condemned to be a low traffic fringe project.
The curse of reddit alternatives. It's always some fringe group that starts it and scares everyone else off. I was an early Lemmy adopter but being from post-soviet country just couldn't handle the ignorant tankie politics being injected into every discussion. There's just no sane leadership.
It's run by the liberal equivalent of Evangelists, with all the moralistic and obsessive baggage that comes with it. Unless you're in the group that runs it, you're not going to be able to use it.
We had a fun incident at a work place, where the Big Corporate US Owners had a Slack with profanity filter on, but our company was Swedish. The word for "end" in Swedish is "slut". So basically you couldn't talk Swedish in that Slack :P
Wow, that thread is insane. Why do these people think they get to play arbiter of morality for everyone their private installations? Are they not aware of other languages than English?
It might have changed since then but from what I remember of reading through the lead devs reasoning behind the "feature" I want no part of that ecosystem.
Edit: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622