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They actually have, I believe.

https://github.com/LemmyNet

What project were you referring to here?

Unfortunately I can’t tell the same thing about the developers of a fork that don’t work well and isn’t Fediverse.

What do you think I think you're saying?

Gab failed because they intentionally catered to the alt right and the CEO is a raging low IQ blowhard who hates people he disagrees with while pretending to be a Christian. (Sorry, I have massive gripes against the guy and can't stand the fact that people trust him lol)

If you want the ability to say slurs then go find another project.

I think I have, I mean the whole point of this post was to talk about Lemmy.

this is not censorship though. It’s moderation.

Okay well lmk when you find internet censorship void of moderation

It’s just saying hey don’t use these particular slurs...They are just saying don’t use the words or if you do need or want to use them put an asterisk or something.

There's nothing wrong with that, on an instance level, but there needs to be an option where people can say whatever they want, so long as it's legal.

I'm envisioning this new FOSS social media frontier that is the Fediverse more as a platform for all, and less of a fanclub centered around specific ideologies.

You have ironically stated my reason for not by default holding all Lemmy users to the word blacklist in this comment:

If a community is to have autonomy it needs some consensus on rules and standards of behavior. If we don’t want to have an authority ruling over us, we need to have responsibility, hold each other accountable, and create an environment where the most vulnerable in our community feel protected and like people are actually going to fight for them.

the developers of Lemmy are not assholes

A-holes, perhaps they are not, specifically. But their stance on this antifeature is a very jerk-like move, on their end.

[Lenny is] a fork that [doesn't] work well and isn’t Fediverse

Ooh interesting! There are key differences between Lenny and Lemmy? What functionality does Lemmy have that Lenny is missing?

I don't even plan on saying those words, I just think that the software should allow the blacklist feature to be configurable in the UI to easily allow for these two things to happen:

1. Instances who don't want censorship can easily disable the blacklist
2. Instances that want stronger censorship can easily add more words to the blacklist

Another use here mentioned that you can change the settings in the source code, which is a good start. Not sure how that's better than just using Lenny tho.

Yeah, that's a fair point on the Parler part.

Now THAT was a very...strange and bad website.

No, it shouldn't be made illegal, but, I mean unless it's for like historical reasons and probably even then...is there even really a justification for creating art supporting Nazism? And IDK about others, but being black, it'd be hard for me to envision making something neutral in regards to the Third Riecht.

I'm not opposed to it, but that needs to be done on a separate instance cuz plenty of people are put off by that kinda thing

Limmi?