@Gargron long time 🐦 user, very new here. Trying to learn the ways of the land. I trust the oldbies here to give some slack and friendly point out faux pas. Very much wanting to learn the fediquette.

@Gargron that is reasonable, but I must say the sign up process is overly techie--I say that as long time tech nerd

@Gargron hey, do you think its possible someday for end to end encryption? Is that on the roadmap?

@Gargron given that different places in a federated network have different rules or customs, would it make sense to have functionality to add a CW to a boost? Is that even possible? I guess it risks it becoming a quote-boost?

@Gargron This so reminds me of NNTP servers back in the 1980s and 90s. Some servers honoured newgroup and rmgroup messages from anyone or by request, or not at all unless on a signed canonical list. Concensus in the 80s led to anarchy in the 90s. Anyone remember the newgroup flood that was an Ascii Art "picture" of #JerryGarcia?

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I can see using CW for NSFW content but if I used it for political content, as one person suggested today, I would have to CW nearly all of my toots. If you don't like reading about politics, you should definitely not follow me!

@Gargron "When logged into Rome's server, post as the Romans post". I don't know Greek, but just know that I wanted to post this in Greek.

@Gargron Sort of like irl, right?

@Gargron so it’s like a way more confusing version of tumblr then?

@Gargron cw are a mistake and are a cope scope on posts are a cope. Reports are a cope you're a cope.

@Gargron ❤️

@Gargron Thank you. People seem to struggle to understand that the norms on your server may not be the same on another, and even less so across the entire Fediverse, even though content flows between them seamlessly.

A vegan-centric server might prefer content warnings on photos of charcuterie, but probably not a Brazilian server, and they wouldn't to expect the entire Fediverse to adhere to their standards.

@Gargron I think that’s the biggest culture shift that everyone is still getting used to. I really appreciate your thoughts on things, especially as a newbie.

@Gargron I hope you take this same people perspective and add quote toots

@Gargron i’m a #newbie here in mastodon. Any tips? 😄

@Gargron Don’t listen to the pressure from those (like myself) that came here from Twitter. This place doesn’t need to turn into Twitter. We need to adapt to what’s new. Personally, I’m loving it here.

@Gargron I really appreciate you spelling out these pearls. It's so obvious when you say it! Good to be educated. Thank you.

@Gargron Thank you. But I struggle with the use of #cw (60 % of my posts are covered by this) but I follow the written and unwritten rules and like to respect the culture. During the short term I have been here I have not left any litter on the #Mastodon floor so to speak, although many seem not follow the same standards in posts about #politics and do not use the label CW. Given the growth, some clarity would we welcome as to the law of the land when posting about politics.

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Nice heads up thanks, I just joined. As my feed is currently filled with beautiful inspiring landscape photography, was coming around to the view that maybe Mastodon wasn't the place for exercising my introspective opinions... Still, I'm going to go for a walk and see if I can't join the people making more uplifting contributions.

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How do I apply as Moderator to help ? I can provide newbies with lists to follow as everyone is asking the same thing

@Gargron a consensus on usage of CW in the fediverse would be similar to getting consensus by all software producers on taxonomies & tagging of their documentation content. Good luck!

However, it may be helpful to talk about & showcase good examples of tagging patterns,UI patterns, and how they support (or don’t) core use routines.

@Gargron Once someone explained it as a headline not a content warning, I use it all the time now

@Gargron good! Love it 🫶🏽

@Gargron there will be a consensus once i get done with it

@Gargron -- I wondered about that when an old friend complained that, checking me out here on mastodon.nl, he found my profile page featured a "trending" hashtag that included hard porn photos with no content warning.

@Gargron thanks. I should have guessed that but when in a new land one wants to avoid inadvertently offending

@Gargron thank you. I hope not to get banned from all of mastodon for being a rape victim who doesn't want to be told to shut up.

@Gargron we’ll settle in. Just takes time.

@Gargron @mattblaze A note about content warning from Mastodon's creator.

@Gargron Thanks for Mastodon, Eugen. Newly subscribed and having fun exploring.

@Gargron @mattblaze ... the downside of that seems to be, people from all over the fediverse feel like they are justified in harassing newcomers who violate their (narrow, single-cultural) expectations... instead of blocking and moving on

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Hi John!

@Gargron My favorite part of this is "having been here since 2016" 😀