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Yeah that's pretty fucking bad. Fucking hate how the corpos have been censoring via autocorrect. And in particular how mundane of shit gets censored. Talking about questioning your sexuality‽ Talking about harmless drugs‽ Insulting Australia‽ We shouldn't be "protected" from "accidentally" saying such things.

I do feel like autocorrect has been getting consistently worse over the last 2 years.

Limits like this should have opt-out. People deserve to call out those pigs freely and with proper spelling!

I fucking hate the policing of words by admin dickheads and corporate censorship algorithms online. Policing other people’s language flies in the face of every freedom and right people have fought and died for. Also the internet is the easiest place to ignore people, give people who care the tools to filter their feeds and comments instead of blanket banning everyone, cause it might upset some vocal minority

Who the fuck do these people think they are, deciding what we can and cannot say, what we can and cannot express?

I never really understood the whole "No really, we HAVE to guillotine them all" attitude of the 18th century French until I met tech bros.

The full list: https://swipeblocked.com/list

Created by the one who discovered the list, Derik Kauffman

pigs out here catching strays

I suppose that explains somewhat why the stupid swipe on this fucking phone is so dog shit.

I need a Linux phone. :/

Motorola is releasing a phone with graphene OS... That's all I'm saying.

For Android, there's the Heliboard keyboard which is open-source and really good, doesn't compare with other FOSS keyboards I've used. My only gripe is that it doesn't do multilingual suggestions, you have to keep switching the keyboard language to get the correct suggestions.

I wish all phone keyboards had a easy toggle to turn off all “smart autocorrect” features so it types exactly what you entered with no changes when you want to

Apple’s autocorrect is the best example of enshittification that exists to date. It was exponentially better 10-15 years ago.

Is the keyboard on iOS getting worse every year or am I in the early stages of some horrific degenerative disease?

It's probably good if my phone doesn't call my mother a cunt while telling her I'm bringing the cocaine by default, but I should be able to toggle that.

What a bunch of weighed anchors.

On 4th of June, 1989, in Tiananmen square, Beijing, nothing particularly interesting happened.

I feel like this should be regulated. We should not let private interests arbitrarily mold our speech just because that speech is being mediated by platforms that they create.

Edit: For the record, I’m not making a free speech absolutist argument.

I used to use swiftkey keyboard (Microsoft product, I know it was sinful), but it would automatically capitalize god, christianity, and christmas no matter how many times I corrected (or un-corrected?) it. I also found its vocabulary to be lacking past a certain point.

Apple autocorrect and suggestions are pure shit. Especially on the touch swipe keyboard; it will just straight up make up words

I think it got even worse when they went to “AI” (Aborted Intelligence) in 2024, and they just have too much hubris to fix it