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The whole purpose of that fork seems to be removal of the slur filter. I am sorry if you feel oppressed by being unable to use slurs in your posts. What is so good about their issue tracker? It seems completely empty, both on Github and the My Little Pony themed gitea instance.
to be fair, hard-coded slur filter is extremely childish. What if you want to launch a non-english instance and english slur filter is catching false positives? e.g. you cannot say the word "late" in french with this filter.
Why is it even there if it can be avoided by a dot in the middle of the word? Is lemmy for toddlers or something?
It's there to dissuade alt-right communities from using Lemmy. Seems to work too because they lose their minds over supposed free speech impediments. I don't think the devs expect it to be an ultimate solution to a slur-free utopia.
As for edge cases with non-English languages, that issue has been raised on Github before and has been fixed.
I highly doubt it has any sort of an effect. I mean you can get around it with a dot or a synonym or whatever. There's a reason "slur filters" aren't a thing — because they don't work. Even club penguin couldn't work it out with 5 year olds and had to have live admins anyways.
As I said it is meant to dissuade. It isn't perfect but it's straightforward to implement and except for a few edge cases it doesn't cause any hiccups. If you have better solutions, feel free to suggest them to the devs. Just saying something that isn't that much of an impediment to begin with doesn't work without suggesting better ways isn't constructive.