I've said this before, but I think #ContentWarnings are largely dead on #Mastodon.
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I've said this before, but I think #ContentWarnings are largely dead on #Mastodon.
I find it hard to recommend members of my instance use them when no one else does. I don't know if it's a post-Twitter thing, or if it's pushback against CWs being used to silence marginalized people, but I just don't see them used all that often.
I myself don't really want folks to use CWs for things like calling out racism/*phobia, but I do think we ought to use them for capital-P Politics news.
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@[email protected] I have no discrete opinion for or against content warnings (NodeBB does not support them), the fact that it's an opt-in functionality does not help uptake.
Strategic use of hashtags and the ability to filter out hashtags is more useful (e.g. "I don't want to see anything tagged
politics
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@rwg In the lead-up to one particular country's federal election, which seems to be a period of a thousand years, please please do