Patricia AasNov 10, 2022
I wrote a thread about Mastodon on Twitter, it needs to be read.
https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1590485665535643649?s=46&t=hpE2Unzsn-9qKirLfo3tYA
Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 on Twitter

“Ok fine. I have tried to hold my tongue, but there is a line, and when Mastodon folks threaten BIPOC people with getting blocked for not Content Warning when they talk about racism… I need to get real with y’all. 🧵”

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Show threadBjørn StærkNov 10, 2022
@patricia the version of this that made sense to me is that "content warnings" are useful as subjects for longer posts, and for making it easy for followers to ignore content i think not all of them might be interested in. like if i normally write about politics, my followers would _expect_ political posts, so maybe i'll cw only the longer ones. but i might cw a post about programming, because most of my followers aren't interested. the "politics must always have cw" doesn't make much sense.
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@bjoernstaerk @patricia people are more than one thing? I mean, I do run several Twitter accounts to keep things a bit separated, but if someone don't like me taking a political stance on my gaming twitter, or random outlet or jokes on my "serious"/politics account, they are free to unfollow/mute/block.

I CW things that need an actual CW, I don't use it as a "read more" feature.

Nov 10, 2022 at 11:49amWeb
Show threadBjørn StærkNov 10, 2022
@worldwidewerner @patricia sure, and why not? my point was that cw usage can be context specific. maybe your context is politics and gaming and jokes, then there's no purpose to cw'ing any of that, or maybe not even anything at all. but there will be contexts where it's useful to say "here's something you may want to take an active decision before you look at" because it's long, uninteresting for many, - or disturbing. in the context of that person, their followers and the instance they are on.