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Dana Fried
On fedi: Therefore, it is bad form to censor words (e.g. "r*pe", "k*ll") because that evades people's mute lists. These censoring conventions were created to evade algorithmic moderation on other platforms, which, again, we don't have here. Instead, just use the words and apply an appropriate CW if you think it's needed. 24 comments | Expand all CWs
Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
@tess Every time I read about someone using "unalive," or onions as a synonym for unions, I just get existentially sad about how deeply platforms have shaped language. 
Dana Fried
I'm not going to CW-scold anyone; whether to use a CW depends on a lot of factors and is a very personal choice. If someone is talking about things that upset you without a CW you can always unfollow, mute (temporarily or permanently), or mute specific terms.  
Mike Dolbow
@tess huh - I never thought of that before! Thanks for sharing the reasoning around that, it makes sense.
Mike Dolbow
@tess wait, honest question - should I apply that concept for cursing? I typically only put *s in the F bomb. And so I just realized your context wasn't what I was originally thinking it was. (Sorry I read your post too quickly.) 
Eka A.
@tess I wish we had the ability to have posts with selected words marked as having X list of words, but hidden. One may have times when some words can be dealt with, but other times not. The current system makes the post totally vanish so one can't make a case by case determination. Both ways are needed. Some people don't want to see X word at all. So a list of words to hide the post, and another list to mark as used, but allow viewing on click through.
stella vantechelgibbity
@Eka_FOOF_A @tess this can be done with filters already. you can set up a list of filter words to completely hide and another list to simply show a warning for
Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck
@tess Do you know how hard it is to filter out Trump? I don't want to block oranges from my world but it almost came to that. Same with Musk. People are infinitely harder than objects because of the name calling. 
Andrew
@justyourluck @tess oh god yes, there's one person I follow who occasionally posts about trump with the deeply unhelpful content warning "former guy". my dude. this is fedi. half my feed is "former guys"
Fluffy Kitty Cat
@tess yeah we don't have weird censorship like on corpo shit apps you can say normal words    
FiveSeventeen
I do agree with you, but also recall that some have been brought up to censor their words, verbally and in writing, and this is a hard burden to shed. |
Gregory's Server
If you feel bad/awkward writing triggery words out, think about how the threat of shadowbanning or downranking on corporate platforms has made you afraid to speak openly about difficult topics, and how nice it is to be on a platform where we can choose how we protect others and ourselves from potentially triggering or upsetting posts.
It's time to unlearn the things other platforms have forced us to internalize.