Jamie Funk
Amy GriswoldHi folks, please put posts about today's election behind a content warning! It's a way for people to control when and how much they want to engage, from "not at all" to "I am passionately interested in everyone's thoughts, but reading them needs to be 10% of my day, not 90% of my day, or I will break my brain."
Richard Gadsden@amygriswold Also, a hashtag so people who are interested can find you...
Steve Washington@amygriswold It may also be respectful of non-U.S. readers who are not interested in today’s midterms.
Daniël Franke 🏳️🌈@amygriswold Don't forget the last category "I'm not American, and their elections that feel more like a sports match shouldn't fill my day", although you could classify that as an annoyed version of "not at all".
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@amygriswold Always remember - if it's that important to you (and there are so many new users here) - you can use expiring filters to filter out "election" or "politics" or "vote" w/a 24-48 hour filter in your settings...
Dave Lee@amygriswold Hm, I don’t think that’s a sustainable or useful practice. I think the onus should be on you (as in, everyone) to filter what they don’t want to see. Maybe a middle ground is to encourage hashtags to make that filtering easier.
@daveleeFT It's the norm on wandering.shop, which is my home server. It's sustainable and useful for the people who are doing it, in the places where they're doing it. mastodon.social may have different norms, which is fine; one of the virtues of decentralization is that we don't have to agree on one best way to use Mastodon.
Ryan Smith@daveleeFT @amygriswold I disagree and think that CWs are super useful. They're also easy and serve as a "tldr" and give the reader the option to consent seeing it.