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hey guys from Twitter.

we are glad to see you here but please understand that the fact that fediverse is anti-viral, anti-hierarchy and anti-capitalist is the point of it

please also understand that CWs, alt text and other stuff here is not there to "silence you" — it is to allow users greater agency over their feeds for their mental benefit, and to support disabled people.

this network was built by marginalized people. who disliked Twitter for the same reasons you do.

don't bring it back.

Show threadNorman KebellNov 10, 2022
@tillianisafox Hi, there's a lot there that assumes knowledge. For example not sure about fediverse, CWs,alt text. Just getting to grips with Mastodon.
Show threadCHECK PINNED IF YOU FOLLOW MENov 10, 2022

@Tormid it's okay, I understand you. this toot is mostly targeted at those who protest against those important things even though they are a part of local informational ecosystem

by the way if you have any questions, you can ask other people or ask me, I can gladly help!

Show threadSiegePerilousNov 10, 2022
@tillianisafox @Tormid Me too...having difficulty grasping the acronyms and tech speak. What is CWs and alt text pls? Assume fediverse is the combination of Mastodon servers?
Show threadJonathan D. Abolins
@SiegePerilous @tillianisafox @Tormid As Tillian noted, CW is used for uncomfortable content notice. (Don’t assume it’s a “trigger warning”. More like a TV programme stating it has mature content or such.) A challenge that newcomers, myself included, may have is “reading the room”, getting a sense what is/isn’t deserving a CW note. Yes, some are obvious. But some might not be. (I got reader suggesting that a toot abt drone tech -no gore- in war needed war content CW)
Nov 10, 2022 at 1:41pmWeb
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@JonAbolins @SiegePerilous @Tormid 👆exactly