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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You just drag your finger to all the letters in the word you're trying to spell. If you need two of the same letter you just do a little loop while going over that letter.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wed erred eee wed erred erred erred erred erred weed.

I had to do like 3 loopty-loops on E to get it to type weed. It really doesn't like that word.

Edit: turns out that pausing on the E for 1 second works better than a loop. Weed.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah there's a lot of censorship shit you have to work around. It used to be a lot better before tech companies switched from simple proved to work algorithms to bullshit "ai"

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I don't think it has anything to do with censorship and the swipe library doesn't use AI. It's just a very ambiguous swipe near very common letters.

On a hunch, I tried simply holding for 1 second on the E. It seems to work a lot better than a loop. You can even see the hovering word change from "we" to "wee" while paused on the E.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I say it's censorship because I've noticed "dirty" words almost always need to be typed out letter by letter but I can swipe for 90% of the other words I want to use.

I can use swipe to spell hypothalamus but can't use it to say fuck without typing it in over and over or deliberately adding it to my phones dictionary.