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.
Would your opinion be any different if they priced it at its current price 7 years ago and stuck to it?
People like different things. I used to follow CS esports a bit but now I don't. Filters and tags on kbin/lemmy would help with this like they have on reddit but I don't think it's fair to exclude esports from the magazine because it's also on reddit.
No idea why that particular community isn't working on your instance. Searching with ! works on your instance with other communities that aren't already indexed there.
You need to search for [email protected] or https://lemmy.ml/c/nixos then it will either show up in the search result or you can use https://programming.dev/c/[email protected] to subscribe from there.
Honestly, Youtube is probably the easiest option because everyone already has an account and video hosting is expensive so it usually comes with caveats.
I have one of them and it was a piece of shit
I'm just being reductive for the sake of emphasizing how non-descriptive the term RPG is especially when tons of games have "RPG elements" (ie. stats/level progression).
Every game is an RPG
If you click on 'Instances' link on the very bottom of a page you can check who is defederated. Right now it looks to just be: burggit.moe lemmygrad.ml