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One of the nicest things about having your own platform (or as close to self hosted as possible platforms) is that you can, within reason, rant in any way of your choosing. Use the language you want to use. You can say fuck, shit, etc…
Now you also may get flack from it, and thats fine. Thats how the internet always worked. If you say the Nword for example, sure I would expect people to get angry. But platforms are now dictating language. And that is not ok. Because we need to talk about serous stuff sometimes, and I dont want to censor my language.
One of the nicest things about having your own platform (or as close to self hosted as possible platforms) is that you can, within reason, rant in any way of your choosing. Use the language you want to use. You can say fuck, shit, etc…
Now you also may get flack from it, and thats fine. Thats how the internet always worked. If you say the Nword for example, sure I would expect people to get angry. But platforms are now dictating language. And that is not ok. Because we need to talk about serous stuff sometimes, and I dont want to censor my language.