Iv seen posts with people substituting rape with r@pe. Other than bypassing filters I can’t see a reason to censor just 1 letter that doesn’t actually censor the word? I see if you fully censor the word, but even still context completely ruins the censorship.

  • @can
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    1311 months ago

    I thought it was just about not triggering a word filter

    • 𝙣𝙪𝙠𝙚
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      211 months ago

      I think that’s what is happening. It’s to prevent the algorithms from hiding away their post due to controversial topics.

      • axum
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        111 months ago

        There’s no way any modern word filter doesn’t have a common symbol substitution list