EDIT: @[email protected] shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]OP
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    Sadly, yes.

    Not gonna lie, I was only there to encourage people to get off Reddit.

    • @MutilationWave
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      So what’s up with “not gonna lie”? I’ve been hearing it for over a decade, and I hear it from known liars, people I trust, and all the shades of in-between. This is the first time I’ve seen it on Lemmy.

      If someone I trust says it, I trust them less.

      If a liar says it, I know they’re about to lie. It’s the “I’m not racist but” of liars.

      I worked with a woman for years that said “not gonna lie” roughly 30 times a day. I liked her, I just hated that so I could be biased.

      I realize this is completely derailing the post but do you have any insight on this phrase?

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        It’s only there because there’s some odd contradiction between the first and second part; someone who considers the existence of Reddit “sad” wouldn’t be expected to be there. @[email protected]’s reasoning is in the right direction, with the “something shameful” being “to be in Reddit”.

        That said I’m a bit too prone to spam discourse markers like this. Or like “that said”.

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        OP uses it in a weird way here, usually I see it used to admit something shameful, which you’re more inclined to believe