Bluesky, a decentralized social network, allowed users to register usernames containing the n-word. When reports surfaced about a user with the racial slur in their name, Bluesky took 40 minutes to remove the account but did not publicly apologize. A LinkedIn post criticized Bluesky for failing to filter offensive terms from the start and for not addressing its anti-blackness problem. Bluesky later claimed it had invested in moderation systems but the oversight highlighted ongoing issues considering Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey backs the startup. The fact that Bluesky allowed such an obvious racial slur shows it was unprepared to moderate a social network effectively.
I know several people with Nigge in the name - probably less common in the parts of Germany where lower German wasn’t spoken.
It also exists as component in the middle nof names, both with and without r - and does so in other languages as well.
The point of this example is that you can’t just filter and be done with it - depending on what you’re doing filtering, flagging for review or not filtering and acting on complaints are all valid strategies - but there is no version where you can do without staff to either block or unblock names.