Scott AnguishHow do you turn off all content warnings? They seem to be used far too liberally
Like why a picture of a dog? Or a restaurant review? Just why?
Jeff C. 🇺🇦🇬🇱@Sanguish The CW norms here are just bizarre.
I can see it for truly upsetting stuff, or for movie spoilers or whatever, but people use them almost reflexively.
I can see it for truly upsetting stuff, or for movie spoilers or whatever, but people use them almost reflexively.
@jeff yeah, so I’d like to just be able to turn them off. In the iOS client.
Mark Bessey@Sanguish As I understand it, some instances prefer to use CWs liberally, as a way to allow other users to choose what shows up in their timeline. In particular, instances which started out as places for marginalized folks to get away from abuse on other social media seem to do this. If you use the official clients, it also makes your timeline more-compact, so you can find interesting things faster. In that way, it's a sort of headline for the post. Makes it more like a USENET feed, really.
@mbessey I think the way to make it more like a usenet feed would be to require titles and not show the bodies.
But as I said, reviews of places to eat, a picture of a dog or cat, those seem excessive.
It also doesn't help that it took me a week to figure out what CW meant. Lingo isn't helpful to new people.
Jon@Sanguish should be here for you I think? https://mastodon.social/settings/preferences/appearance
hollie ☕️📚@Sanguish It's in your preferences. There's a checkbox for "always expand content warnings".