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#feditip for newbies, especially the ones who post a lot of politics stuff: use the CW or "Content Warning" feature if you want people to boost your posts.

For example, if you're posting about American politics, you might CW with the subject line "American politics" or "USPol" for short.

Using CWs has been part of the established culture here for years, and people generally don't boost unCW'd politics posts. If you think something's important and want to give it visibility, use a CW.

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@ifixcoinops other than politics are there other non-obvious (i.e. SFW) categories that should be CW'd? For instance, talking about sports or science or music? I wouldn't ordinarily think of those as something I would "warn" someone about... (unless I was going to play live music, then i would certainly offer earplugs!) Just wondering how far the CW ought be taken!
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@pharmesq Nah, there's no need to warn someone about music. :P You can use a hashtag if you want, they increase visibility for people looking for that tag, and provide a filter for people specifically not looking for that tag.
Nov 7, 2022 at 1:14pmSubwayTooter