Yeah, I don’t know about that. To my knowledge, corporate platforms will strongly disfavor your post in their content curation algorithms, because advertisers might be unhappy about being displayed next to naughty words.
As a result, you have some folks self-censoring pre-emptively and overzealously (since we don’t know the actual list of naughty words), but you also get survivorship bias, i.e. people who repost to Lemmy will not see the posts using actual swear words in the first place.
Yeah, I don’t know about that. To my knowledge, corporate platforms will strongly disfavor your post in their content curation algorithms, because advertisers might be unhappy about being displayed next to naughty words.
As a result, you have some folks self-censoring pre-emptively and overzealously (since we don’t know the actual list of naughty words), but you also get survivorship bias, i.e. people who repost to Lemmy will not see the posts using actual swear words in the first place.
both things can be true. There are other forms of interaction bait other than censoring, but censoring is also a way to do it.
edit: holdup did you just ask a question then tried to correct me when I answered it?? why???