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Has anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, either to avoid being penalized by the algorithm (real or imagined) or to avoid content being searchable by others? We (me.dm)
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Has anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, either to avoid being penalized by the algorithm (real or imagined) or to avoid content being searchable by others? We have people who communicate about "s*x" instead of "sex" and... that's probably a very bad thing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] Absolutely. All the newspeak/self-censorship to avoid algorithmic penalties should be included.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I’m not sure whether “unalive” is a way to avoid algorithms or just a way to avoid saying “dead.” Where I grew up, referring to someone as “dead” seems crude and disrespectful, so we would say “passed away” or “moved on” or “in heaven.” I wonder if “unalive” is in a similar vein.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] It is used primarily to avoid algorithms downranking you on TikTok and YouTube.