To be more precise, people here are more like themselves and don't use self-censorship, communicating like bots.
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Avoiding topics isn't self-censorship. It's when you curtail your own expression, so stuff like f*#@ or even euphemisms like "heck".
OP was probably referring to the annoying trend of memes with censored words like "sex" or "kill".
These get posted all the time, but at least there's always a couple people calling out OP for being lazy.
I kinda feel the opposite.
Self censorship is when you refrain from engaging in certain topics, not when you do blatantly obvious word replacement. Censorship is about preventing the dissemination of ideas, not the dissemination of words.
Self censoring can also be when you avoid talking about an entire topic. But you're right, it's not when you block a community or person.
True, I could have written that better.
Sure, blocking people and instances isn't exactly self censorship, but it was something I started doing after experiencing multiple instances of people attacking me for words I used, assuming I was a fascist for using a word they apparently got triggered by and completely ignoring and flat out lying about the context of me using the word in my comment. One time it was the word woke. Apparently you can't write that in any comment in any context without being a fascist to these idiots.
It was a very disappointing experience to be attacked like that by people who would twist the observable truth to make shit up about you when this was supposed to be a place where people could talk freely. So I started avoiding topics and using certain words while on here even after blocking instances and people. Mostly because I just don't feel like having to deal with psychotic retards who think reality and context doesn't matter and that anything to the right of total communist domination is fascism. . . Which is a bit ironic, ngl.
But sure, if people want to focus on words like sex or kill as a bar for Lemmy not having self censorship, they can enjoy that delusion. My personal experience is that having any opinion that isn't pro violent revolution and using words deemed no-no words by the brainrotted masses, makes you free game to harass and attack and lie about.
I have, to put it very frankly, never truly met as unhinged and unpleasant people online as I have here. The closest I have gotten in the past was when I was observing the self implosion of the online alt right in 2018. They might be able to compete with Lemmy leftists as being some of the most unhinged and divorced from reality nutcases I have met online. And when you find yourself surrounded by people like that, you will self censor or stay entirely silent until you have removed yourself fully from their orbit.
Is the word "degenerates"?
No.