Needlessly censoring words like sex. It wasnβt necessary on Reddit and it certainly isnβt necessary now.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Censorship like that was introduced to make the platform appealing to advertisers. I'd say just don't give power over how to run the platform to advertisers.
I find it absolutely mind blowing that people are generally accepting that as okay on most social media platforms.
I can only assume that people donβt understand why it was brought in on YouTube and TikTok in the first place because so many people do it when it isnβt remotely necessary. If you make your living posting on social media, then fair enough, I understand you need to fall inline with the rules of the platform. But why the hell would you self censor posts you donβt make money from? Utterly ridiculous.
All they know is that The Algorithm won't show their posts if they use those words. How anyone can understand that and not see how incredibly fucked up that is, though, I don't know.
I agree. It's absolutely absurd that would say something along the lines of "Fuck, I got r*ped, what do I do?"
I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't censor any words. If you feel the need to censor it, then just don't say it. If you want to discuss it, then be able to say it. You should be able to say something like "X called Y a nigger".
I'd say people worrying about Karma.
this /s
Censoring inoffensive words like sex.
Yes, thank you. Excessive prudishness and self censoring is always an indicator to me that a community is going a weird direction.
Reddit became too America focused. Most of the posts were about America or assumed everyone reading was American. It felt very exclusionary.
Calling communities "master race" as in /r/pcmasterrace
Lol everyone should go read the couple of posts on the community / magazine with the same name. Hilarious seeing people so triggered by people pointing out that the name is a bit problematic.
IIRC, it started of as a joke and an explicit nazi reference to make fun of PC gaming fanboys, and then they just embraced it without understanding the context?
the origin is this exact video: https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo
There was a second factor in its creation that most people have forgotten, involving a power-tripping mod on /r/gaming. People were posting their gaming setups (both consoles and PCs) when one mod decided to ban all pictures of gaming PCs for a very stupid reason. So PCMR got a lot of initial subscribers from leaving the "dirty console peasants" behind, with that mod's stupidity held up as a representative of the console community. Hence the joke, especially the "superiority" jokes.
The sub was created specifically because of the joke. It's always been a joke. Who honestly believes that which system you choose to game on is a genetic or racial trait anyways? It's a ridiculously exaggerated take on the "console wars."
Making all these posts on Lemmy be about another site.
The community won't flourish if the only thing people are talking about is their social-media ex.