Anil Dash on Nostr: Has anybody written about the near-ubiquitous online trend of bowdlerizing text, ...
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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