@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.

@sophie @gretathunberg @watch_union There is quite a lot of discussion going on about CW which I only got aware of somewhat belatedly. Sorry for adding to this even more - and for keeping Greta and UnionWatch in the thread, I really don't know what would be/have been the appropriate thing to do - , but [email protected] mentioned a not-so-obvious approach that I find interesting. I would still not *expect* anyone to follow this, and it sounds a bit abrupt at first, but I think it's reasonable enough to *wish* it was at least considered widely. I'm copying it here so I have everything in one place:

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When all your posts are political AND you want to post them without CW, the consequence is that you *only post to your followers*. So the posts can't be boosted. And noone stumbles across them by accident.

Now, *that* would be consequent and good form!

You can find that option in your settings, btw!

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