Was your blog in English, though?

If you take Internet access…

…and cross reference against English speakers…

…then I think that’s enough explanation, no?

Hey, if you’re getting death threats in PMs please reach out directly to admins. That is not something we tolerate. I am not sure what options like IP bans exist or will exist. We don’t want anybody to be harassed.

So as @PP44 is saying, it’s open source. The devs work to make sure that anyone can set it up straightforwardly to run with their own modifications, not just the main version – and that means modifying the slur filter is also supposed to be straightforward, even though it’s not encouraged. There isn’t actual moderation on the whole platform per se, since two instances can federate even if one has no slur filter. There are lots of “points” to federated stuff, though, so the existence of a slur filter works well to help keep Lemmy from attracting the cesspool-types while still enjoying those other benefits.

I tend to think this is the kind of thing where you should try starting a different community with stricter rules, put in the effort to populate it with initial content, and see what people gravitate towards.

Another alternative would be for bots to exist that would automate looking up alternate links / artist profiles; I have one of those in matrix and it’s quite nice. I think the devs’ goals are to keep such bots off the flagship, but that’s another “split off and see how it goes” option.

then it comes down to the principles, then–let’s set aside objective superiority. if most people like the older looks, should they be made to live and work around buildings that they find unpleasant? (and it really is an active dislike–I look at your last example and on an instinctive level feel that cantilevered (?) projection is threatening me, like it can choose to crush me if I walk under it) or is it problematic that this leads to Kincadeification? then again, is that different than architects’ being constrained by the current expectation of what a contemporary building should look like?