• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      The non-offensive word I have seen used for a person who seeks out relationships with homosexual people despite being the opposite gender is “beard”. This is derived from the fact that it helps the male in the relationship present outwardly as a “real man” with a “normal relationship” in settings/societies where homosexuality is not considered acceptable to one degree or another. Also, sometimes homosexual couples of opposite genders will “beard” for each other in a mutually-beneficial dynamic.

      edit: it seems spoiler text doesn’t work right on a lot of mobile apps, including voyager. Anyways: watch For All Mankind. It’s great.

    • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Lemmy.world censors only “faggot” and the N word. Lemmy.ml censors “bitch” and various slurs. I believe their users can still see comments with these words in, though they cannot post them themselves

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        Am I missing something? I have absolutely no idea what you guys are talking about.

        Is there a slur somewhere in this post or the comment section? And TIL that Lemmy communities can censor words. I’m from blahaj.zone btw

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.worksOP
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          Lemmy instances are able to censor words; it can’t be set per community. When viewing a comment from an instance that censors some word, that word will be replaced with “removed”. This applies to both comments sent by users of that instance, and comments sent by external users.

          Blahaj doesn’t censor any slurs

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        feddit.uk doesn’t censor anything at the moment, because I accidentally broke the slur regex.

        Normally, users from censored instances can still see rude words, they just get removed “in flight” if they try to post anywhere.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          Well the first one has basically one meaning that’s derogatory (including the definition of a bundle of sticks used for kindling; that’s literally why it became a slur as it implies you want to burn them) while the three letter word is also slang for a cigarette in much of the world.

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            removed and fag are used interchangeably in much of the world. Both have other means, both are derogatory and both mean gay.

            Makes no sense to censor one and not the other.

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          Aha, so it seems that other instances do censor the words for their own users. It was “fag-got”.