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> If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say.

Well, except for when you program the software that way.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224#issuecomment-7...

Hilariously a year after saying they would never remove the slur filter, they did just that in 0.14 (https://lemmy.ml/post/89740). I'm not sure if that's a good look or not.

It's definitely an improvement. Instances should be allowed to moderate speech however they want to.

Good software is continuously improved. Criticizing the authors for an arguably wrong design decision they've corrected years ago is vengeful and petty. It's no different than the viral rumors spread by the Mastodon thread TFA mentions. This is abhorrent behavior that has no place in the open source community.

Never say never

Okay, the software has a slur filter built in. Seems great! I also assume users of their own instance can remove that, but this might affect visibility on other hosts.

The discussion is about making it configurable, which was rejected.

It was made configurable just over a year later.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#lemm...

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