This seems to be becoming the hot topic, the elephant in the chatroom - the balance between censorship / freedom of speech on lemmy. There are solid arguments for both ways, and good compromises too.
IMO the FAQ makes it quite clear what the devs have built here, and why. But recent discussions, arguments, make it clear that a lot of the most vocal users object to it.
I’m very curious. Many active users feel this way? Please vote using the up arrows in the comments.
Look. The entire reason people started working on Federation and in general decentralized communication platforms, is that people did not want censorship. If you start censoring people, you defeated the entire point of going federated.
That point is that each community can decide what’s acceptable for themselves, and nobody decides in their name. The slur filter managed to defeat this. Congrats, you made a piece of software that’s just more complex to understand but not actually useful