• ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    931·
    2 months ago

    Can we please stop censoring words? It’s just amazing how much damage has been done by platforms to people in this respect.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 months ago

      It’s why my iPhone sucks, censoring the most basic swears and auto correcting my cursing. What’s worse is you can even use words like “die “ anymore.

    • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
      111·
      2 months ago

      Not unless we stop reposting content from other social media which would make Lemmy even more dead than it already is.

      • Saleh@feddit.org
        5·
        2 months ago

        lemmy is quite alive. Source: this post has 22 comments by the time of me writing this already.

          • Saleh@feddit.org
            2·
            2 months ago

            I am fairly confident, that there is more content on lemmy right now, than a person can sift through.

            If there is more than about a dozen comments under a post, i rarely read all of them.

              • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
                0·
                2 months ago

                Nah, just the “active” algorithm is shit in Lemmy. Try other sorts. I promise the feed will change. Not as much as I’d like, but it does change.

                • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
                  0·
                  2 months ago

                  …I do. But the majority of the communities I subscribe to (and I have found multiple iterations across different instances) are not very active. Their reddit counterparts are.

                  You can stop trying to reject my experiences with your nonsense to make yourself look right. You’re not.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksM
        2·
        2 months ago

        Make sure to switch up how you look at posts and you’ll see that it is more alive than you think. Active seems the most dead which is default, but I still check it. I go by hot, active, 6 hours and scaled, in that order.

    • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I’ve started taking censored posts like this and emphatically uncensoring them so the naughty words are even more prominent.

      I posted it in another comment.

    • Nasan@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      2 months ago

      One of the few things that are consistent with these people (MAGA sycophants), fueled by hate; is how they harbor a fair amount of self hatred in the case where they don’t clear the purity hurdle.

    • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yes that stuck out as so crazy “I may be Jewish but at least I’m not…” Like…and you people wonder why your party is accused of being antisemitic lol?

      • uid0gid0@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Jezebel was an old testament (or Torah) wife of one of the Jewish kings back in the day. She was tossed out a window for “leading people away from Yahweh” which is usually code for encouraging people to worship one of the other regional deities of the Levant such as Enki.
        Later on, her name was used to disparage female fortune tellers in the Book of Revelation. Nowadays calling a woman Jezebel is a polite way of saying she’s a slut.

        • thanatotus@lemmy.ml
          0·
          2 months ago

          Thanks for the explanation! I was confused who is the good guy and who is the bad guy here, I knew MTG has said negative things in the past, but your explanation makes it much clearer.

      • korazail@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        As well as describing MTG as a jezebel, as explained by uid0gid0, the sentence structure is interesting:

        “I may be X, but at least I’m not Y” would imply that both X and Y are negative traits, but that Y is worse. The sentence doesn’t really make sense if the X is to be seen as positive: “I may be nice, but at least I’m not a jerk.” Thus, Loomer is implying that being Jewish is already a strike against her in her own eyes.

  • passepartout@feddit.org
    39·
    2 months ago

    I’m not too familiar with american c-type celebrity politicians, but can we please stop giving this soap opera shit any more platform as it may as well be purposely disguising all the real and important issues in the USA?

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      17·
      2 months ago

      Sadly, this kind of trash is far more important to the average person than the things that matter (and this is hardly just an American phenomenon). It’s mainly because the things that actually matter are much more complicated, and require effort to understand - whereas this kind of crap lends itself to quickly picking sides, and boosting one’s ego momentarily by providing someone else to look down upon that your entire social circle is likely to agree with. The unfortunate reality is the majority of people just don’t have it within them to deal with what really matters & prefer the distraction of mundane cat-fights to avoid having to face that fact.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 months ago

        Sadly, this kind of trash is far more important to the average person than the things that matter (and this is hardly just an American phenomenon). It’s mainly because the things that actually matter are much more complicated, and require effort to understand

        bike-shedding

        From bikeshed +‎ -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp[1] and has spread from there to the software industry at large.

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      A lot of the rights they try to remove from us are hypocritically being followed by their behavior.

      Which I suspect is why odd things are being pointed out.

      It’s odd to make it a legal issue. Thus odd things are raised to the surface.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      71·
      2 months ago

      I would unironically support a ban on any content with this kind of censorship

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Lemmy does a pretty good job pushing back against it so far - it never goes unmentioned like it would on reddit. And I think that has an effect. Once I actually started looking for censored content, I realized there isn’t that much of it here. I could go a day or two without finding any.

        I’ll also say that there a few words I wouldn’t uncensor, namely slurs.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    Thank you for censoring the c-word, I don’t think I could have taken it otherwise.

  • 58008@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Making fun of someone’s looks is unfair and childish, because they cannot help how they were born. But this bitch did it to herself on purpose and paid good money for the privilege, sooooooo…

    Where’s your tricycle, you fucking lumpen balloon animal of a Saw villain?

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I don’t even watch South Park and I almost convinced myself this was a faked tweet using a South Park script and simply slapped these two on top.

    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thats my only hope. Much like how the top nazis under Hitler would have (and in the few days also did) imploded in infighting after Hitlers death. Will the MAGA movement fail when the driving force dies? Will we see a mad scramble for power where whoever comes out in top doesn’t have whatever crazy Trump has?

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        They very clearly tried to test run a new trump-lite candidate who they could control in 2020 with DeSantis, but he flopped so hard it was hilarious. They’ve also started trying to talk up some of Trump’s kids and test the waters there, but they’re inconveniently too old and too young or too female for the voter base’s liking

        The Republican party is absolutely fucked when Trump passes because they can’t manufacture a replacement for his cult of personality in time. This is part of why they’re trying to perform more election fuckery right now (and partly because they keep passing incredibly unpopular policies and executive actions which they can’t blame on the other party at all right now)

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
          4·
          2 months ago

          some of Trump’s kids and test the waters there, but they’re inconveniently too old and too young or too female

          I don’t think Cokey or Dumbo have a problem with being too old or young, but they’re somehow amazingly even dumber than daddy shitpants and have the charisma of a hammer and a soggy noodle respectively.