I absolutely get where you're coming from, in the sense that being called a pedophile is way more damningly offensive than simply being a cunty cocksucker, for example.
It does seem like a derived scale though if that's the intent, like they're ranking the actionability or capacity of the word to offend rather than the "how bad is this to say on network TV" level of offensiveness I'd expect.
Good call on the offensive words being disabled as suggestions. I definitely thought I had offensive word suggestions enabled, considering "cunt" and "dickwad" and all sorts of other stuff showed up (stuff I don't recall typing before anyway) when I wasn't enabling it.
Just to confirm, I have offensive words enabled now and yes, pedophile and its relatives do show up. So it's just ... The hierarchy of offensiveness seems weird, eh.
Somewhat related note / PSA to all:
When typing on Android 16 using Gboard (with permissions and custom dictionary turned off), the words "pedophile," "pedophilia," and "pedophilic" do not show up in the suggested set of words or autocorrections. It doesn't say these are spelled wrong after you complete the word though. It simply offers no suggestions after "pedoph-" is typed and shows literally nothing when you put the cursor on the completed word, unlike any other word.
Out of curiosity, I tried a bunch of swear words and slurs. Gboard will gladly show the N word if typed correctly for example, but not pedophile. ("Cocksucker" is the only other word I can find that has this seeming lack of dictionary presence.)
The fuck?
Typeface might be the same, but the font is wrong. Width doesn't match (compare the Os and As) and the kerning is shit.
Par for a dictator's course.
I thought this was good news, until I read the comments.
If the courts aren't giving up, don't give up either.
Let's stop normalizing this rolling over business, eh?
I feel like deeper conversations are still to be had with the people who understand you most, even if you're not the closest with them IRL or online. That said, it doesn't happen for me as much as I'd like it to for a number of circumstances.
That said, is it just me, or is everyone we see in daily life looking like they aged 10 years in the last few? People in the grocery store checkout, office workplace, manufacturing floor, next door, whatever human interaction capacity. Are we all aging like crazy from sheer lack of certainty in anything anymore?
Or like, is our planet's 420ppm carbon dioxide level (which if I'm doing my mental math correctly is a 30% increase in atmospheric CO2 from just 1980ish) actually really fucking terrible for humans and we are dying as a species in real time, right before our eyes???
Fuck me.
I mean we're fersure getting dumber.
Also this might actually be a decent deep conversation starter. (I guess we should keep trying to compensate for the CO2 dumbness somehow.)
Reminds me of a video from ages ago where a horse was curiously sniffing at a baby chick out in some barnyard. So cute, just super adorbs, mmmkay.
Let me tell you how not prepared I was for when the horse straight up ate the chick.
... I was not prepared.
life is a dancefloor
I took a career aptitude test and it told me I should have been a software engineer and idk if that has anything to do with this, but...
Tl;dr: I got high and there's got to be a way to do it in this here vote-time continuum!
On a superficial level, couldn't you get creative with lemmy community settings (using a new sister community) and create only pinned posts/threads (may be subject to mod approval) which are then autosorted by new comments using some scripty pinned post reordering logic? That probably could only apply to a single community though...
The extent of my web design knowledge is limited to fuckin around with myspace html buuut, with more lemmy UI settings, could users elect that certain posts are "forum" worthy? As in, "this is a meme teehee" or "this is a topic worthy of revisiting over a greater period of time" kind of thing. And barring any weird astroturfing, these posts get "pinned" to be revived at the top of the community whenever some reply or top level comment threshold is passed. Inversely, pinned posts could fall away into an archived state after a certain period of no activity, much like the rest of lemmy that's over a week old (whether it's actually no longer active or not).
Getting pinned (hehe) would probably require meeting various straightforward thresholds (like relative or absolute vote value and/or the ratio of upvotes to "pins"). That could determine a sep for how long a post/thread remains subject to revival by reply.
If this configuration were applied to lemmy in general, I think to encourage participation, I'd say it should be an opt-out situation when visiting a specific community (do you want to see community-pinned posts?) and an opt-in situation when choosing to include "active archives" content in a homepage feed.
Not really sure about implementation, but to me it just becomes a secondary voting system as a means to value longevity of a topic, and various ways of incorporating those data into user sorts, community pages, and news feeds that might want to utilize.
Simple as that, right?
^heh^
Do I dare ask? I have this sinking feeling it's racism related...