@patricia thanks for writing this.

Folks here on #Mastodon should read this, and take this seriously.
Clearly, there's a culture around how things are done here at Mastodon, but maybe there is a better way to teach folks about that culture instead of blocking/banning folks outright.

If #Mastadon is to be a place for well-meaning folks on the internet, threatening people may not be the best way forward.

And it is hard to know who means well, but @[email protected]'s call out is pretty clear cut #IMHO

an instance where "well-meaning" is not clear-cut:

I have refrained from posting anything about last night's elections here in the US, because I know I would be dinged about CWs. That makes me not want to post about elections/politics.

That does not feel very free-speech-y.

But I can also easily imagine discourse around US politics and elections getting out of hand (as intentioned by the OP), so a CW may not be a bad idea for all things politics (?). I dunno!

@krishnavp I'd like to stay here and improve this culture, so I'm busting my head on how to solve this.

I live in EU and couldn't care less about US elections, but it's up to me to curate what I see. You should feel free to speak out about what matters to you.

Feels to me we should use hashtags more and clean our feeds as we see fit, rather than threaten others into doing it for us.

@dkruythoff the thing that has been working well for me: picking what I follow. I follow hashtags, and folks from the intro posts. So far this has been good enough.

Not sure where this starts to breakdown, or why there would be a need for others to *necessarily* use CWs to suit my interests in my feed. If I do not like something, I guess I should be able to just unfollow (?).
Not sure where that would break down, and fail to scale.

@krishnavp sounds like a sane strategy to me. I believe warnings should be used for that purpose: To warn for extreme or undesirable content.

I can't imagine they were meant to prevent people from every single thing they dislike.
We're sharing space here. We need to at least show some tolerance and be able to look away.