SophieI’m seeing long-time Mastodon folks asking people to please PLEASE use CW on posts about political topics and then I’m seeing almost no one actually do that. It’s so important to keep up with the culture of this space that was established long before many of us got here. Just use the CW!!
Andreas Wagner@sophie I was wondering whether this use of content warnings (CWs) can really be recommended or even expected across all the fediverse. Like, I am not sure I want to ask political activists or news outlets to prefix all their posts with a CW. Like, do I really want to ask @gretathunberg to always use CW "climate crisis" or @watch_union to use CW "depol"?
That's why I found the idea of a client-side content filter that auto-inserts CWs in my client that I have seen mentioned recently kind of intriguing. Need to check it out (find it again in the first place).
Maybe having a default CW post template that these accounts could use would be another (technical) approach.
All of which I guess boils down to my stance being: please use CWs, in particular if it's for stuff that you are not posting mostly about, but I acknowledge that you may have good reasons not to.