John AravosisNov 11, 2022
To everyone, like me, who is new here on Mastodon -- I swear, I feel like I'm in Canada, escaping Gilead -- here are two posts by the primary developer of the platform (and owner of the non-profit that holds the trademarks etc) explaining that you should ignore people lecturing you about what you should and shouldn't post here. I now consider this issue settled, and will no longer respond to these folks. Time to embrace Mastodon! Thank you for welcoming us.
Show threadJohn LuskNov 11, 2022

@Aravosis

Bearing in mind that the word seems to be that Eugen is not super-hospitable to (all) the ideas floated by the marginalized community.

On the "CWs" topic, I saw another post that said, basically, "do your best and you'll be fine." Seems reasonable.

(Not gonna CW my politics posts, though, since that'll be most of what I post eventually.)

Show threadCabinLoonNov 11, 2022

@tarheel @Aravosis

"(Not gonna CW my politics posts, though, since that'll be most of what I post eventually.)"

From what I observe that is what most of the fuss is about, though. People expecting all politics to be behind CWs. And people who discuss that primarily feeling constrained by such expectation.

Show threadClaire QNov 11, 2022

@CabinLoon @tarheel @Aravosis

I agree that US politics being behind a CW would be great. More than any other country, Americans seem to think the whole world is their own politics. I remember following topics on Ukraine to try and find out what was happening with a 19th C war being waged in Europe. All the Americans had overtaken them arguing about which President they considered had caused it more. Never mind what Europeans want to know - all about US.

Show threadJohn AravosisNov 11, 2022
@Claireq @CabinLoon @tarheel There were a bunch of Americans discussing American politics. Why is that a problem? Do you not think that Greeks discuss Greek politics? Also, the US' oversized impact on the world since WWII means everyone, non-Americans included, discuss US politics disproportionately. It's neither good nor bad, it simply is. And is easily explained by circumstance. Don't like it? Mute and block.
Show threadClaire QNov 11, 2022

@Aravosis @CabinLoon @tarheel

They were doing it on hashtags and threads that were the main places people were going for news about Ukraine. I like the idea of CW so there aren’t tonnes of American navel gazing to wade through to find what you want. No one said they couldn’t discuss politics, but it does appear to be Americans who are the ones saying they won’t use them for their political thoughts. I’m just pointing out why it would be nice if they did

Show threadJohn Lusk

@Claireq @Aravosis @CabinLoon

I'd have to CW most of what I post, so that probably won't happen. Eventually, I'll be crossposting from my blog (which will be *mostly* political), so, people who are truly interested in what I have to say (which is probably... nobody) can filter based on that.

Nov 11, 2022 at 4:56pmWeb
Show threadClaire QNov 11, 2022

@tarheel @Aravosis @CabinLoon

I love links to blogs. I can open and leave on a tab on my phone, until I want/have time to read it. That’s my favourite kind of stuff to follow (and also why I always have around 20 phone tabs going at once!)