Sophie JaneNov 6, 2022

Reminder to please CW anything to do with politics and particularly “look at the awful things these right-wingers are doing”. Being able to choose when and how to engage is important and makes a big difference to the overall mood of the timeline.

And please don’t boost politics posts with no CWs either - I’ve been seeing a lot of that recently from new arrivals

Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
Remember doomscrolling? Remember the constant low-level anxiety of “can’t do anything about this but I can’t look away either”? You have the option not to do that here on fedi, and the option not to inflict it on others
Show threadJ.R.BeeNov 6, 2022
@ghost_bird i tried very hard to make my Twitter space nice- it was mixed
Show threadSophie JaneNov 6, 2022
@jrbee Even with heavy-duty blocklist subscriptions I found I couldn’t stop well-meaning allies boosting bigotry into my timeline as “look at this awful thing” or “lol what a bad opinion”. It’s a major reason I left
Show threadOddPlz
@ghost_bird @jrbee this is something I have really enjoyed in the day since I came over. It's just been... Not awful. Here's hoping people don't just replicate what we hated about twitter. Keep educating Sophie <3
Nov 7, 2022 at 10:32amWeb