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How to quickly lose a few potential users.

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Other people might say it's a great way to self-moderate its network.

Can't handle "locker-room banter"?

You won't be missed.

How to quickly show you have no sense of humor.

Fragile egos that can't take such a innocuous joke are not really a loss in the overall scheme of things though.

It's not a loss.

With emphasis on few. I'd wager less than 0.01% of potential users would be butthurt enough by that joke to avoid the platform as a whole. And the ones who got butthurt, probably better off not having them on the platform in the first place.

It's open source.

It seems strange that someone would be offended by the US variant being called "simplified" spelling — wasn't that the whole point?

Maybe they meant people who don't want to be considered traditional...

I’m an American and not offended in the least. It is simplified (color vs the obviously incorrect UK variant colour). Gray va grey. y’all is a great addition to the Simplified English.

Despite being told long ago by a drunk English visiting student that “the language is English not American” I’ll stand by our American simplification! Lamentably this simplification seems to be backtracking our political system…but hey we’re going from Discord to Revolt!

> It is simplified

Still waiting for American Football to be renamed to Handegg.

lol, or how to easily filter out a few users who can't take a joke.

Ones that are offended by a lighthearted joke. Sounds like a plus

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