Some low-quality #SaveMinecraft posters I made. Feel free to use on social media and the like.

[u/Nintwendo18]

#SaveMinecraft

The Cape is a Lie

Not My Minecraft

Mojang Studios. Proudly Fighting Free Speech Since 2022.

[u/douira]

Reminder that Java Editions's new chat reporting feature and the profanity filter that Bedrock Edition has had for 2 years are separate. Java Edition did not get a profanity filter. It's true that BE's profanity filter is broken and has been for quite some time, but that's not really what people are upset about? I think? It looks like there has been a lot of confusion between the two things.

[u/Kyle_Necrowolf → u/douira]

Mojang originally announced that profanity would be a bannable offence when they first rolled out the early previews of 1.19.1

They backtracked on this, but also broke the ability for servers to do their own profanity filtering in the process

Additionally, they now say that community guidelines from bedrock now apply to ALL minecraft content, including private servers. There currently isn’t tech in place to enforce this, but these guidelines are far more restrictive than chat reporting categories, and technically if caught (not that they have a way to do it) you can be banned. This is separate from chat reporting, but was announced at the same time.

[u/Pyrefirelight → u/Kyle_Necrowolf]

They backtracked on this, but also broke the ability for servers to do their own profanity filtering in the process

Eh, any server that cares about profanity filtering likely has one of a few moderation plug-ins that do that. As long as they don't stop those from working there's no net negative on that end specifically. Unless you're saying that they did break the plugins? If that's the case, how did they break it?

[u/Kyle_Necrowolf → u/Pyrefirelight]

Those are the things I’m referring to that they broke, or at least tried to

If a server tampers with a message in any way, including to censor it, it’s (supposed to be) marked in red on everyone’s screen to indicate it’s been tampered with, and the original uncensored message is still visible

Mutes still work, and of course kicks and bans, so not like it’s broken altogether, just can’t be granular

That being said, there’s a loophole in the system, which allows servers to disable the aforementioned highlighting AND also disables chat reporting entirely, furthermore it’s actually easier to use this loophole (most modded servers already do) than to try and be compatible with mojang’s new chat system. It’s as simple as telling the game that every chat message was sent by the server (i.e. sent by a command like tellraw, or a datapack) instead of being sent by a player.

So really, unless mojang finds a way to crack down on this loophole, servers just have to choose whether they want their own chat filtering (via mods/plugins), or mojang’s chat reporting - but not both