Is the hard coded bad words filter a conscious choice? I presume someone wrote a PR to fix that and it was rejected?
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orclev@lemmy.world 4 months agoThey run lemmygrad and are dedicated communists, as well as having a very opinionated “bad words” filter that’s hard coded into the lemmy server software and not configurable without building it yourself.
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Exsqueeze me? Where might one see this hard coded bad words filter?
orclev@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s encoded as a regex which you can find here: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/…/slurs.rs#L74
It’s honestly not a terrible list, but there’s at least one entry in there that falls victim to the scunthorpe problem, and it sucks that it’s not something administrators can easily customize.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I appreciate the link. I don’t see any political words in the “slur filter”, just, you know, slurs. Which, as far as it goes, I’m fine with that being baked in (language does change over time, but I guess that’s what PRs are for).
Did it used to say “tankies” in it or something like that?