@kissane@mas.to
Great research & insights!
This is a vital phrase: "Realistically, cross-instance attempts to push people to CW non-extreme content are a no-go at scale and punish the most sensitive and anxious new users the most. "
Also - " benefit from having cues built into their instance’s implementation of the core [Fediverse] software" - This is also a major thing we're missing on onboarding users.
For example, I hadn't realized it's good etiquitte to untag people who the message isn't targetted to from a threaded conversation, until Evan had mentioned untagging a prominent figure from a long conversation that was no longer related to the original point.
Things like that, not just CW, but also boosting is better than liking (and not penalized by the algo like on FB) - that people don't know unless they're told - and software devs or instance admins could either have a write-up to link to - or even better having mini onboarding prompts.