But it is a workers' state.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2026
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Because it leads to voluntary tiktokifcation of vocabulary.
A lot of people online these days use silly workaround phrases to get around hidden word filters, from "sewerslide" to "sesbian lex" (a trend that really got off the ground years ago on tik tok). Social media sites suppress or remove content containing these words to keep things advertiser-friendly. One nice thing about non-corpo social media such as the lemmyverse is that we don't need to speak in such strange, convoluted, and infantalizing ways. My brother didn't have a sewerslide, he comitted suicide. I don't have sesbian lex, I fuck dykes.
More to the point, I find it incredibly offputting that we're allowed to discuss unpleasant concepts but not name them. With the appropriate trigger warnings, anyone here can discuss the sexual violence that came with the Nakba (or the recent Israeli riots calling for the ",right to **** Palestinian prisoners). Or we could talk about the historiocity of claims that the Red Army ****ed its way through Germany at the end of WWII.
Everyone knows what I mean with the censored words. We're all intelligent adults discussing history and horrific world events. Why can we discuss a concept but not name it?
You can name the concept. Just don't use loaded language and use CW's. I don't understand the problem here. Censoring the r-slur is not like censoring "lesbian sex".
The specific example here is not a slur, variations of it are not banned either. You can say degeneration or just call someone a degen
the r-slur is a slur, calling something r-sluration doesn't erase the impact of the word on someone. And that's what the point of a filter is, to minimize impact.
edit: Oh I guess we're talking about specific words and not the word filter in general. Well calling someone a degen is pretty sus so I'm not too worried about some discussion having to work around it.
But the thing that is sus is the thing that's allowed.
I mean all kinds of words are allowed, or rather not blocked. I still don't understand the problem here