Mastodawn

💉💉💉🎉Nov 10, 2022

I think much of my issue around the Content Warning culture on Mastodon, is the vocabulary. "Content Warning" has a very specific meaning in other contexts. Here, it is more like "Content Filter" or "Subject Line," to give readers a choice to expand or not.

This feels wrong, because of other contexts where majority folks have tried to express trauma or pain at even having to hear about the racism that impacted me. Feels very much like "Ban teaching civil rights, so white kids don't feel bad."

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Suvidu

@mekkaokereke I hear often the term "content notes". I like it because it says they tell you what the text is about. For some, this might be a warning, for others an information that sparks interest. People are different, so one person's interest could be another person's trauma. Therefore I can mention 'bird site' and people who are interested can read the whole post.
But I might also really want to avoid the topic.
And I can use it as a warning.
I like content notes.