Big tech social media really hates these words.
Meta is known to ban or ghostban all Ukrainian posts with neologisms like “русня”, “москаль”, “кацап”, “ruscist”, “ruzzian” and the variations. For some reason, companies try to ban everything without trying to understand Ukrainian situation. It’s absurd, like banning word “nazi” in 1939. Ukrainian news publishers also suffered from such bans.
And Reddit doesn’t automatically ban for these words, but russians can report you and you will get banned for sure. Funnily enough, when I tried to report russian posts/comments that used a similar neologism “хохол” or that mention the special military operation and ZOV symbols - nothing happened. And under any controversial post I can see the banwaves and lots of [deleted] comments which weren’t deleted 10min ago.
I think if the company wants to ban war neologisms, it should at least create the list of banned words for transparency to avoid surprises.
So my final question is: what does lemmy.world think about the overall situation, and using such words here?
I like the fediverse for that very reason, that no big bro can press a button ad thereby delete or ban things. But this is still no perfect place.
I once, for example, posted in a pro Palestine community a relatively moderate reminder that the Hamas is a terrorist organisation, and that beside of all the wrongdoings from Israel the attack from October the 7th, 2023, which initiated all the following mess, could not really be justified.
I expected, as it was a pro Palestine community, harsh responses and many downvotes. But the mods just deleted my post for “breaking rule X”, which I couldn’t see at all as the post was unwelcome there, yes, but in full accordance with all their rules (which I had read carefully before I posted there).
So there is irresponsible blocking and one-sidedness on Lemmy & Co. as well, even if it’s from a kind different style here, compared to the big tech social media solutions.