So, not sure if I am completely off base here, but I had this odd thing happen today where I couldn’t post an URL because whenever I did, part of it would be replaced with the text removed. You can see what I am talking about in the screenshot, and I am linking my comment below. Another commenter replied saying it was likely something related to a slur filter in my instance, so I am coming here for help to understand the issue. Sorry if this is completely wrong, I am not very well versed in the workings of the fediverse and different instance implementations. Here’s the comment:
Censorship is dumb as fuck. The sites that do this are as fucking stupid as the religious pearl clutchers out there getting mad when we say “God damn it” or “fucking Christ”. Grow up you dipshit control freaks.
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it’s removed from our slur filter now
redbr64@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just out of sheer curiosity, do you know what might have gotten it added in the first place? Is it a substring of some obscure slur? Substring of some spam domain or something?
Anyway, thanks for the fix
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it was a significant part of the brand of a spam/advertisement campaign several months ago
redbr64@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Testing: theapp Testing the URL I was sharing: theappendix.net/…/local-history-feet-first