Lemmy: way to disable slur filter for non-English languages

[DimensionalScoop]

The slur filter removes words that are innocuous in other languages, e.g. the (very common) German word "weniger", meaning "less" or "fewer". This makes sense for English posts, but makes it very confusing to have a discussion in German.

[Nutomic]

Related to #440.

[Nutomic]

Übrigens hab ich bisher noch keine deutsche Diskussion auf Lemmy gesehen.

[dessalines]

Yup this will have to wait for proper multi-language support. In the meantime I can alter that regex to make sure it doesn't catch weniger.

[Porrumentzio]

This has been very frustrating as on Basque some of our verbs end with -dindu, and it's removed without reason. I even didn't know that that was a slur word in English, implementing this in the code is a very bad idea (in my opinion) for other languages (even on the same language, words should not be automatically removed IMO)

[Porrumentzio]

Hi! I see you removed some words and added others. Could this be optional on each instance (decides by administrators) or at least by language?

There will be part of words present in many other languages and this will create problems for sure

[dessalines]

No because that would be a really easy way to circumvent the slur filter. We'll take language conflicts with these on a case-by-case basis.