For example, if someone forked Lemmy, and made an LGBT or POC instance with a different word filter how would federation work with instances with incompatible filters?

  • nutomic@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 years ago

    The current implementation will replace any slurs in posts/comments from other instances with removed.

    • clockwise_bit@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 years ago

      Ok, that’s good then.
      What happens in the other direction? I mean, If a post with a more strict filter appears on a less filtered server.
      Do the words remain censored?

      • nutomic@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 years ago

        Yes, in that case it is filtered by the API right after it is submitted. Of course we can think about changes to the slur filter, so it works better with federation.