r/technology • u/marketrent • Mar 08 '25

Social Media Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent — even in a Nintendo context

https://www.theverge.com/news/626139/reddit-luigi-mangione-automod-tool
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u/atlasraven Mar 08 '25

It's called Lemmy. It is decentralized but has other trade-offs.

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u/fistulaspume Mar 08 '25

Isn’t that the one where people wanted to be racist and shame fat people and got butt hurt because Reddit wouldn’t let them be jerk wads?

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u/atlasraven Mar 08 '25

I mean, I'm sure there is a part of Lemmy that caters to that. You get ultra-right and ultra-left people in these kinds of open-source experiments. But let's not kid ourselves that Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc... are pious champions of morality.

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u/fistulaspume Mar 08 '25

Yeah but I thought Lenny was created that way on purpose. Unless I’m misremembering.