• Nik282000@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      Or disgusting that algorithms with arbitrary rules comtrol so much of what so many people see.

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      7 months 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.

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        7 months ago

        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.

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      7 months ago

      not only that, but by using munged language like that you’re effectively making peoples blocklists on trigger words utterly fucking useless.