It was pointed out to me somewhere else that it probably isn’t the actual word being censored, but rather anything the AI they use to moderate deems as probably being intentionally controversial. The word “cis” does now show up, in one comment, and the word “cisgender” in another, both made several days after I pointed out the issue.
For reference, and why I think the “AI removing controversial comments” is a plausible theory, the comment I replied to was “sorry, I had to use the bathroom,” which I replied to with

“In the bathroom Matching your birth sex I hope 😤
Unless your chromosomes are xx, then you better use the women’s room.
Unless you also have a beard, then you better be using the men’s room.
Unless you’re also a cis woman, then you better use the women’s room.
Unless you’re also tall, then you better use the men’s room.
Unless you’re also intersex, then you better not use either or we might have to acknowledge you exist.”

And then after that all the comments of mine that got removed were pointing out that the reply had been shadow banned (editing to note: I did also try reposting the original comment worded differently and it still got shadow banned,) which also got shadow banned, until I switched to calling it “darkness forbidden,” where it went through. However, others were able to use the phrase “shadow banned” with no problem when replying to me.

The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)

I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever once used the word cis on any other occasion, but I can’t even find the video it was a comment on anymore to check if my comment is still there. It was a short about trying to explain to cis people why cis wasn’t a slur. I don’t know if I’m blind or it’s genuinely gone.
You might be right though. Albeit I’d find it odd for the Onion to be blocking trans related words in a video explicitly about trans people, but it could explain why my first comment was up for 10 minutes or so before vanishing. But the first time it wasn’t shadow banned, it was completely gone, even on my end, so I suspect it was manually removed.

I suspected this probably wasn’t the first time. Definitely frustrating. I wish there was some other video sharing site that offered what YouTube did without the evil part.

Fatal familial insomnia keeps me up at night.

I can relate in several ways. One day I woke up to my step mom screaming and my dad screaming at her and the sound of things being thrown around. He was super drunk, and when he came out of his room, I pulled a knife on him, but he was too out of it to notice. That or he had and just never told me. Before I got it in me to move, he started crying, hugged me, and kept repeating “I’ll get better” over and over again. After that day he started going to regular therapy. Religious therapy, not real therapy, but it never happened again, so I guess it worked either way. Nonetheless I can’t bring myself to ever step foot in his house again. I’ve talked to him over messaging before during some emergency situations where I had nobody else I could call. He seems like he’s really improved. But tbh, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fully trust that he’s genuinely changed. Because of him my stomach still drops whenever I hear sudden loud noises, even if it’s just somebody dropping a screwdriver or something.

I’m in neither camp personally. I overheard my dad joke to my mom about how the best time to stop beating your kids is when they’re old enough to fight back, and so I learned to fight against it, physically. Of course he didn’t stop at first, I was small and weak, until one day soon after I cut his eye with my fingernail. That’s when he finally decided to tone it down.
And yet when that happened, I wasn’t happy. I thought I was a monster for putting him in the hospital.

lol, I suppose that is true.

My desktop has it at the top, as did the PC I had before it a few years ago. I’ve seen PCs with it at the bottom, but I’ve never owned one, so hearing that they’re always at the bottom is weird to me.

I’ve never been downvoted anywhere for expressing that opinion. Lemmy especially there’s a huge disparity where saying you’d rather be with a bear than a man is unacceptable, but saying you’d rather be with a bear than a woman? A-okay. Source? I’ve said both. Only one was I not attacked for. Guess which?
Seriously, I’ve expressed my trauma regarding men countless times and every time been attacked for it. I’ve expressed my trauma at the hands of women and not a single downvote or attack or disparaging remark any time. Lemmy has a very clear bias.
I wouldn’t have a single problem with men getting upset about this bear thing if they got equally upset when somebody says something similar or worse about women, but they don’t.

As a trans woman who has also been sexually assaulted, it has more to do for me with what danger is more real to me. I’ve experienced zero bear attacks. Nobody I know has experienced a bear attack. Why would I fear one? Of course, consciously yeah, I know a bear is dangerous, but I have no real world experience to back that assumption up.
Men though? Yeah, I’ve been sexually assaulted by men. I’ve been physically assaulted by men. I’ve had family and friends who’ve been physically and sexually assaulted by men. That danger is real to me. I know that if a man I don’t know is nearby me he could do those things to me, and I have the real world experience to prove that assumption correct (the assumption that they could, not the assumption that they would.)
Therefore, of course I’m more scared of the man than the bear. And of course I’d choose the bear over the man. I don’t care if it’s the wrong choice, I’ll take my chances to not have to relive that trauma, even if it means risking my life. Not like I’ll have time to regret that decision if the bear decides to kill me. Probably. And most women I know when asked expressed the same sentiment in different words. We’re more scared of men than bears, but that doesn’t mean we literally think men are more dangerous than bears.
Is it the logical choice to pick the bear? Probably not, but humans are not logical creatures. I’d rather make the wrong choice than the scary choice.