Salamander

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Cake day: December 19th, 2021

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  • I have been running an instance without a slur filter for about a year and a half. It is not a big instance, but big enough to have some experience in the field.

    In case you are curious, 100% of the many times that I have encountered the n-word in my instance it has been in the context of a very banable offense, and it often requires spending some effort investigating and purging images from the database. The slur filter would block many these federated posts and comments from reaching my instance without the troll/spammer getting any feedback about this.

    The filter can be a useful practical tool. The reason I keep it off is because I’m stubborn about not policing the words that people can and can’t say. But when I consider what I have experienced and reflect about this, I become more and more skeptical about my choice. The problem is still manageable for my small instance, so I can keep the slur filter off. But I can see that when dealing with this problem at a much larger scale one would want to use any tool at their disposal to make the job easier.





  • My view is: I don’t like this cultural element, and I am glad that I live in a country without it. But if I am a visitor from abroad I would not resist the local culture and try to impose my own values. If I am aware of this cultural element and I dislike it, my options would be to either avoid restaurants and other tipping situations as much as I can, or simply account for the tip when making my financial decisions, and pay it.

    If I live in the country then it is different, because then I am more entitled to be a driver of change. Personally, my approach would be to support businesses with explicit no-tipping policy, and to refuse receiving tips myself.



  • In the admin settings there is a tab that allows admins to add an icon. So far I added :lemmy_hearts: and :mander: to test. I am posting from Jerboa now and the custom icons did not get invoked. I don’t know yet if you can also invoke them from a different instance.

    What I did notice is that the icon gets fixed to a size that is bigger than a normal icon, and the upload button doesn’t seem to be working - i had to feed the form the direct url to an image.





    • The comment thread began with a user in lemmy.world, and the instance was defederated from beehaw, so that comment and sub-comments were not fetched
    • The ‘comment ID’ is not shared by different instances, so each instance will assign every comment its own ID.
    • If you want to fetch the comment from a third instance, you would need to click the colorful ‘fedisymbol’ to get the original link, which is the one from the instance that the original user lives in.