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Just made the switch to Nobara Linux on my desktop and ill probably go with Mint on my ancient laptop tomorrow. My only hang up was games but it seems like compatibility is a lot better nowadays so hopefully I can fully switch over. Same for windows only programs and Wine.
Another workaround is hiding the voting arrows in settings
So both of those words are spelled sabaya when anglicized and while I will admit I was not familiar with the soft s variant because it’s antiquated (and still not necessarily sexual in meaning even if that one is debatable), it doesn’t sound like the man in the video who is supposed to have said that even said either of those words to me. I genuinely can’t even make out what the word he said is.
Why is this the subject of debate nearly 8 months after the fact?
This is just straight up racist propaganda. No other way to describe it
sabaya is straightforwardly associated with what we moderns call rape
Absolutely factually incorrect. Sabaya is the plural of sabiye which means young woman/girl. The masculine form is sabi which means boy or shab for young man (not exactly symmetric like use of guy vs girl in english). Zero sexual connotation and used in everyday language in levantine arabic.
Telegram channels are your best bet. Something like STL Forest or STLworld should have what you need
Didn’t the meme originate from Chinese social media lol? A bit of a reach
I posted a reply to the above comment but the tldr is this is just for straight up slurs and does not ban you but may be used to flag comments for review once that’s set up.
It does not limit discussion and is only for the most basic form of racism/hate. Trying to catch all instances with a filter isn’t realistic and that’s not the goal here.
So for clarification, the filter incorporates some filter avoidance and only includes racial and LGBT slurs and their variants and covers a very small number of words.
Lemmy used to have a slur filter hardcoded into it and that included things like bitch and whore but I don’t think those are used in an exclusively misogynistic context so those aren’t part of this. That being said the filter only censors the words as such: ******. Mod tools can be used in conjunction with this to flag them but that’s still in progress.
If you use one of the very few words that are almost certainly only used in hate speech, it will show up with asterisks. If you’re breaking the rules outlined in the instance sidebar then you will warned, suspended or banned regardless of the existence of the filter.
Nothing in particular happened but I think we can all agree that a forum is better when you know that people aren’t going to throw the nword at you which was possible before this. It’s still possible if you’re persistent and use symbols (or, better yet, dogwhistles) but that’s not the point. This just acts as a hurdle and a moderation tool.
It’s incredibly depressing to know that my vote in federal elections is useless just because of where I live.