You don't need to use weird spellings or algospeak for any topics on the Fediverse ("unalived", "seggs" etc). There is no automated moderation or algorithm on here, moderation happens entirely through human beings and posts are shown in chronological order.
In fact it's better that you use the correct spellings for difficult topics so that people with genuine traumas related to them can filter them more easily.
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audiomo
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Hey, sorry, did you want a shoutout for AudioMo?
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Yeah, the article totally misunderstands the situation if that's what they think is going on.
MostlyTato
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •People filter things for good reason and its not up to anyone else to determine what someone else should be seeing.
Also, good use of hashtags (accurate, descriptive, but not too many) is really valuable as it allows both follows and blocks so people can curate their timelines properly.
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Fedi.Tips
in reply to MostlyTato • • •It's a good point but I don't think most people are doing it to fool human filters?
I think they've just picked up these habits from commercial platforms that use automated moderation that suppresses anything mentioning specific words.
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Fedi.Tips
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Yeah, lots of YouTube videos weirdly fade out the sound or distort it if certain words ("murder", "drugs" etc) are used. They are trying to avoid being demoted by YouTube's algorithm.
Same goes for Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook etc etc.
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Primo
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •For example "Gadse" instead of "Katze" (german for "cat") and I kinda took it for a much more widespread phenomenon than it probably was.
Fedi.Tips
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Ah yeah I didn't mean the weird spellings for fun π Just the ones on serious posts that want to avoid being suppressed.
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •100 years from now how we spoke in the 19th and 20th centuries will be viewed as quaint and antiquated.
Fedi.Tips
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Slang does constantly change, definitely! π
The post was meant to be about something a bit different through? It's not about slang but phrases that people don't really want to use, but feel forced to use just to avoid being suppressed by automated moderation.
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abeorch
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in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Essentially its just a word blacklist
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in reply to Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary • • •I think it's useful to treat technical vocab separately in general and technical contexts? Quite often technical terms migrate into a general use with a related but slightly different meaning.
When non-tech people say "algorithm" they almost always mean a manipulative opaque system that messes around with their timeline in unclear ways.
Another example is "computer", which almost always means a laptop or desktop but technically it could mean a phone, watch, microwave etc etc.
Admiral Memo
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It's a really bad idea to use non-standard characters for stylistic reasons, it does affect screen readers significantly.
I think patrβ¬on would sound like "patr" "euro sign" "on".
June T. Michael
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •That's awful. (And really not necessary here, as posts containing the word are not shadowbanned or restricted or anything.)