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   kasdeya (kasdeya@cryptid.cafe)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:16:18 JST kasdeya

   I’ve noticed that people will replace certain words with euphemisms, like “suicide” will get turned into something like “self-deletion”. or they’ll censor a letter, like “rape” will become “r*pe”

   is it helpful to do that? like if I’m writing a CW, should I avoid using words like “rape” or “suicide” and use a more euphemistic or censored version instead?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:16:16 JST SuperDicq

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     @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe From what I have observed this is proprietary social media brianworms leaking into the fediverse.
     
     The reason why people censor "controversial" words on proprietary social media is because they fully depend on recommendation algorithms, to make posts show up on other people's timelines, as even the act of following someone does not guarantee that this person will see the post.
     
     Proprietary social media often blacklists specific keywords and this causes the post to become invisible to your followers, requiring you to censor them.
     
     On the fediverse this type of censorship is completely pointless.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:24:31 JST SuperDicq

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     @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe Yes, this is mostly why the fediverse is great.
     
     You don't have to find ways around stuff like censorship and automated copyright infringement detection. You can just post what you want.

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     kasdeya (kasdeya@cryptid.cafe)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:24:32 JST kasdeya

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq oh wow that sounds like such a stifling environment to talk to friends tbh - I’m really glad Fedi isn’t like that. and thank you for the reply! this is really good to know

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:30:32 JST SuperDicq

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     • The rown [FitGirl repack]

     @rowan@cryptid.cafe @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe I wouldn't use different words for this reason. People you can just block.

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     The rown [FitGirl repack] (rowan@cryptid.cafe)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:30:34 JST The rown [FitGirl repack]

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq @kasdeya i can only speak for twitter, but there was another reason for that specific type of self-censorship where only certain letters were changed: avoiding harassment from people who would search controversial words to cause trouble in the replies. it was still legible to anyone who saw it on their timeline but much harder to find via search

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:32:48 JST SuperDicq

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     • The rown [FitGirl repack]

     @rowan@cryptid.cafe @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe Or you just set your post to "followers only" and it will no longer show up in search.

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     The rown [FitGirl repack] (rowan@cryptid.cafe)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:32:49 JST The rown [FitGirl repack]

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq @kasdeya it’s easier to t*pe like this than to block 100 people jumping into your replies because they think its funny to brigade

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:34:46 JST SuperDicq

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     • The rown [FitGirl repack]

     @rowan@cryptid.cafe @kasdeya@cryptid.cafe My argument is that there's better tools for avoiding harassment.

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     The rown [FitGirl repack] (rowan@cryptid.cafe)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 16:34:47 JST The rown [FitGirl repack]

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     • SuperDicq

     @SuperDicq @kasdeya i’m not sure what the argument is – i’m not advocating for doing it here because fedi generally has better tools for moderating this type of behavior. it had a purpose outside of your reply though – which was avoiding harassment.