Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.

  • Lauchmelder@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think there’s a writeup, but I can search for explanations later, I’m kind of on the go rn. These filters are technically optional, it’s just another piece of trust you have to hand over to your instance admin and hope they don’t turn them on. Also you have to trust that these optional filters are the only ones, and that there won’t be any hidden filters.

    If you wanna give it a shot then by all means go ahead, but I personally feel very uneasy knowing these exist and the dev is willing to implement algorithms to punish people who post “bad content” in their eyes

    • Kate@lemmings.world
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      2 days ago

      Lemmy also has filters, you have to have the same ‘trust’ that admins don’t add words to them.

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        2 days ago

        Lemmy intransparently punishes users for using reaction GIFs, writing “this” comments and punches communities for having the words "meme’ or “shitpost” in the title? that’s crazy

        • Skavau@piefed.social
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          All of these things can be turned off, moreover, the “punches communities” specifically refers to the mass federation tool that instance admins can use that has had a lot of terms removed.