No matter what I do, it’s like Gboard is specifically avoiding it. It’ll instantly learn any bullshit word I make up like “aprifnid” but can’t type “Lemmy”. I suspect shenanigans.

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        Riot games changed groovy Zilean to look like a cranked out meth head specifically because the CCP wanted drug culture to look bad. A major social media player making it slightly more difficult for their competition to be typed is not outlandish. It means Lemmy is less visible.

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          I think what they’re saying is that it’s POSSIBLE, but it’s not that likely that real energy was spent on making this change because Lemmy isn’t that big of a deal yet.

          I’d say it’s more likely that Lemmy a term that isn’t commonly used, while also being similar to other words. So more people are trying to type out “lemme” or “Lenny” than “Lemmy”. Same reason why certain names are often misspelled on mobile

          I can’t really test it myself because I don’t really use swipe typing

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            Aprifnid isn’t a common word either. I literally made it up.

            I don’t think it’s likely that Google is trying to silence this term, but I am saying that I wouldn’t underestimate the petty lengths large organizations go to for their desired effects.

            Turns out that we can actually finagle the keyboard to say Lemmy if we’re crafty about it.

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              Yea overall agreed

              My guess for why Aprifnid worked better was because it’s not similar to other words, maybe

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          A major social media player… which Google isn’t. If you look up “Lemmy” I think you’ll find plenty more information about Lemmy Kilminster than a comparatively tiny news aggregator that Google almost certainly couldn’t give a shit about. Even if they did there’s a colossal difference between a government ordering a change and corpo management trying an elaborate psy-op.

          It’s good to question closed software and ask what it might be able to do, but this is full-on conspiracy theory stuff.

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      Are you that naive? Why are you defending Google anyway? Google most definitely has a backdoor filter to block FOSS and communist apps like Lemmy and fediverse in general. I also tested Gboard and I can’t gesture type Lemmy. This is proof Google is doing some shenanigans. And I challenge you to try it yourself, stop shilling Google dude!