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.)
"(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.
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.
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
I’m not disinterested in American politics. I don’t want to block it all out. However, to have a social media space that isn’t 80% American would be lovely.
Aren't there regional instances for just that reason? And presumably more and more specialized instances will continue coming online. Each has localized rules for their instance which those users want. But expecting the most restrictive rules to then be used by everybody else - I don't get it. (But I'm also still learning, and not posting much.) What John quoted from Eugen just makes a lot of sense to me.
I’m not completely not interested - I don’t want it completely out. I have been thinning about this. Maybe if a particular topic is dominant at a certain time, people could start to add CWs. That way we can still engage when we have the mental energy, but not be swamped by it.
The thing I am going off is how mentally low my husband got over Trump. Like, it’s bad, but we don’t live there. He came off Twitter, MH improved.
It’s that being swamped by negative American politics - that was such a huge part of the MH negative effect of Twitter, that I was looking forward to seeing dine differently here. The nuclear, “Then see none of it” feels more extreme than the “Add a 2 second CW to a topic that is everywhere right now, so people can make informed choices about their MH”
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