I never really understood why people self censor their comments at all. I can't think of any major social media site that gives a shit. The YouTube algorithm cares, but that's just for the videos themselves.

[–] VanillerGoriller@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't use tik tok so I might be wrong but I think that platform is the main driver of it. My wife uses it and says they have to censor even non-swears like "kill" or "sex" or their video/comment could be removed.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 29 points 6 days ago

Fuck everything about that.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's very common on most social media for comments with swears to get shadow removed. Personally I often resort to non-ASCII lookalike characters instead, because fսсk those sһіttу censorship rules. But it's also a lot easier to just self-censor.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I often resort to non-ASCII lookalike characters instead

Interesting, got a link?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago

I regularly use this page.

Unfortunately it looks like the font lemmy-ui uses really fucked up the 'h' lookalike:

on my phone when I wrote that comment last night I thought I could just about see the difference between the lookalike 'u' and a real 'u' because it wasn't the same height as the (real) 'c' next to it. But I may have been imagining that.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're called Homoglyphs.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Whoa that slur will get you shadow banned from some social media sites