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?
If there is a problem with the administration, is there a need for a fork?
dunno, but it seems to be the only way to remove unwanted code? (e.g. slur filter)
Being unsatisfied with current maintainers is kinda the whole point of forks, isn't it?
Also the github issue tracker seems rough and the lenny fork seems to be more open in that regard.
Are you sure it was only this? The modlog shows wraptile banning people for disagreeing with them and creating a toxic environment. In the past, I have seen them attack someone and call them ‘fascist’ for a banal comment.
I just went through the whole /c/accelerationism log and the guy definitely didn't deserve the ban. The community was pretty much brigaded by people who don't like the concept and the post that broke the camels back was literally saying "the creator has bad ideas" 😬
This is the comment for which they have been for removing for and banning the person from the community. Further it looks like to comment's creator was so embarrassed by this comment that they have removed it themselves!
I'm totally on the wreptile's side here, dude totally got bullied off the platform :D
And for Pazerfaust that's even more black and white. Dude got publically labeled a nazi for comparing communism to fascism, ouch.
Honestly, this is really not looking good for this instance.
The main contributor seems has been banned for saying [1]:
Both Nazism as Communism brought misery to this world. It would be better if they never existed at all.
The other guy got banned for finding /c/accelerationism which apparently lemmy admins are not fan of as a philosophy.
I guess a lesson is: if you want to admin a community on lemmy don't get involved in any sort of politics or philosophy or get an alternative account, which isn't hard since you don't need an email though there's no account switcher extension or anything like there's on reddit.
Actually this led me to a bit of a rabbit hole. There's Lemmy's fork called Lenny[2] as a protest against Lemmy's administration.
I came here from hacker news expecting this to be a small foss communication oriented reddit but that doesn't seem to be the case unfortunately. Maybe when there's federation?
1 - https://lemmy.ml/post/36769
2 - https://github.com/innereq/lenny
wow these are some gab level conspiracies popping out. Next thing you know the empire made the earth flat! 🤣
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.