Here's a comment for incoming Twitter users: I've found that some are really put off by the way Mastodon requires push and pull to get to information. Rather than Elmo telling you what to read (and steering you to most incendiary content), you have to go look for it and choose to consume it. Most notably, I've come to think of "Content Warnings" as instead subject lines, just like you'd use in an email, so readers can scan whether they want to read further.
@emptywheel yep. "Content Warning" isn't great branding but the actual product is really sound.

@tom4okstate If Mastodon split it up to be subject-line and content-warning I’d 100% support. Using CWs as subject-lines is the worst of both worlds.

I have to keep CWs off if I want to read my timeline bc everyone uses them unnecessarily BUT if something really needs a CW I don’t actually get the benefit.

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