Dan moved, see pinned tootNov 6, 2022

#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.

Show threadJennie Kermode
@ifixcoinops Thank you for this. The difficulty i have is knowing when, in terms of the culture here, something counts as politics, and when it doesn't. If I talk about human rights or climate change stuff, do I need to treat that as political? What about (inclusive) feminism?
Nov 7, 2022 at 2:27pmWeb
Show threadDan moved, see pinned tootNov 7, 2022

@jennie_kermode Climate change is its own CW, I reckon; someone can go from "yeah this is doable if we all work together" to "Aye we're bollocksed" and back in the same day, and adding a specific CW (some people append a + or a - to denote good or bad news) helps people to decide to only engage when they're in a place to do some good.

You generally won't go wrong by being more specific and applying CWs more liberally.

Show threadJennie KermodeNov 7, 2022
@ifixcoinops Thank you! :)