EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:

Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

    Three-ish years ago, my comments kept getting eaten by shitty regexes, and I threw my hands up and started placing that after every fucking vowel. It worked everywhere except the few subs so pants-on-head stupid that they had a secret maximum comment length. I just. I don’t. Fuck some moderators, y’know? Some people cannot be trusted with the tiniest bit of power. Misery multipliers.

    Related unicode shenanigans: inhibit symmetric swapping, pop directional isolate, zero width non-joiner, zero width space. I have more I’ll keep in reserve.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzOP
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      Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: (​)

      And odds are that the admins are basically running some glorified version of AutoMod, so fucking with their regex would work nicely. I’ll try this next account, thank you! (Also adding it to the OP)