I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

    • @JonEFive@midwest.socialEnglish
      26•10 months ago

      From the first link:

      Edit: This comment was written [in 2020] at a time when Lemmy the software was practically identical with the lemmy.ml instance. At that time we barely had any moderation tools, so it was an easy way to keep some groups of users off the instance. Now its different, there are good mod tools, and many different instances. So we removed the slur filter in Lemmy 0.14.0 (instance admins can optionally configure one, which lemmy.ml does).

      So basically some developers working on a pet project took a shortcut at a time when other features were being prioritized. Let’s not make this particular item out to be more than it is. I think it serves the conversation better to focus on what the post is about which is widespread bans on certain content.

      • hypelightfly
        6•10 months ago

        Now its different, there are good mod tools

        This part is a lie. There are no good mod tools, only buggy non-functional mod tools.

      • Hal-5700XEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        Okay. Why didn’t they say that in first place? Why say, “because we dont want to make it easy for right-wingers to use Lemmy.”? It’s like they edited the comment to make them and Lemmy look better.

        • @JonEFive@midwest.socialEnglish
          4•10 months ago

          I’m not saying their original statement wasn’t what they meant when they said it. My only point is that hard coding things is a common development shortcut. Everyone knows that it’s bad practice, but when you’re developing software for basically your own use it doesn’t really matter.

          Not only that, but Lemmy is open source. So anyone that is so inclined could remove the filter on their own instance if they really wanted to.

          My opinion might change if I saw the list of banned words and it contained things other than common curse words and slurs, or only included slurs for one group. But without that, this just seems like a development decision in spite of the poor reasoning behind why they implemented it in the first place.

    • @regbin_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10•10 months ago

      They hardcoded it because there were no mod tools back then, and the repo was basically lemmy.ml.

      I don’t think we should look at this anymore.

      • Hal-5700XEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        They did once. They totally not going to do something like it again. /s

    • @StrawberryEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      ooo yeah such a bad look when we can’t say slurs, that is what freeze peach is all about!! Not a very welcoming environment for cishet white dudes, the main characters of the world