Someone made some effort to add that smear over "fucking". And it does not even help...
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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It stops automated OCR reading the word and blocking it on more centralized social media systems.
Then why not use the one without it here? It is just annoying.
At a guess, that's the version the poster had to hand, and it doesn't really bother most people, so spending time and energy finding a different version probably wasn't high on their agenda.
I think thats a reasonable guess. I find having to scroll past these sorts of threads to be annoying.
I get it, it doesn't need to be censored. But it is censored, for whatever reason. Lemmy isn't the only social media platform, and the internet recycles memes.
Maybe it really trips some people up and makes it hard to understand, but I think people tend to understand what was censored without even thinking about it.
I wouldn't even think about these word censors at all if it wasn't for the obligatory "you can say fuck on the internet" comments. Say fuck then, do it! Who cares, though, if someone else didn't say fuck?
Hello @genfood@feddit.org
FYI, !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social is the historically active community for Harry Potter memes
So this community isn't for memes?
At least they didn't call him by his middle name