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lj路rk

@gamingonlinux But... can't you just auto-expand them or even hide them? This is just a UX issue not a social issue with people using CW (or Content Notices). I mean, I personally don't want CWs for politics but totally for gore. Other people are completely different here, we won't ever reach a consensus.

24 May 2023 at 20:32 | Wall-to-wall | Open on todon.eu
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 馃惂馃幃

@ljrk I get there won鈥檛 be a consensus, but I鈥檝e seen how people on Mastodon react. Acting like the Masto Police, demanding stuff they don鈥檛 like to go behind a CW. It鈥檚 more a chat about the why. Gore yeah sure that鈥檚 kinda obvious but like random thoughts, politics etc - so many entirely random subjects people keep hiding away, partly because they feel they have to.

24 May 2023 at 20:34 | Open on mastodon.social
lj路rk

@gamingonlinux Tbqh, I've never had issues with tone policing (in a rude way), but a *lot* of abusive stuff is (thankfully) already blocked/filtered/removed by the awesome mods. Sometimes I just see a notification of some shit, want to report it and it's already gone :3
Most time, I just don't notice.

Whether or not something should be behind CW is, in the end, though simply a very personal preference. Sexual stuff? No CW for me. There are a *lot* of traumatized people on here (actually, the fedi was built by and for them, the CW culture is much older than the Twitter exodus and was never questioned... until now) and we cannot expect them to tell us *why* this seemingly arbitrary thing may be a trigger.

In the end, it's: Either CW or the person cannot follow you. Which you may be fine with, or, in the spirit of inclusion, try to think of using the CW. It's your choice.

I personally, as one can see, often do *not* use CWs. I probably should more often as I often post a lot of quite heavy stuff, but I'm not used to it (yet). For now, I cannot recommend those people to follow me. But I do hope to change that.

@gamingonlinux Tbqh, I've never had issues with tone policing (in a rude way), but a *lot* of abusive stuff is (thankfully) already blocked/filtered/removed by the awesome mods. Sometimes I just see a notification of some shit, want to report it and it's already gone :3
Most time, I just don't notice.

24 May 2023 at 20:41 | Open on todon.eu
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