Mastodawn

Dr Isa Pearl Ritchie Nov 18, 2022

Here's a #tip if you're a #newbie to Mastodon: you can search for people with their name or handle under the # icon here ==>

If you want to make sure you see your favourite writer or good friend's toots you can press the 🔔 icon on their profile and you'll get notifications. This makes up for the lack of algos which would usually show you "important" posts etc

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Dr Isa Pearl Ritchie Nov 18, 2022

Remember, this platform was created by a community including queer, trans, neurodiverse and disabled people. It is designed to be more of a safe space than many social media platforms.

Be respectful and if you share an image edit it to add a caption to help people know what it is

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Dr Isa Pearl Ritchie Nov 18, 2022

Content Warnings (CWs) are not censorship, they are consent. Its just a way of being kind and polite.

Use CWs liberally so that people don't have to automatically see iffy things like politics, hate, violence, food etc (yes, I love food too but some people feel uncomfortable about it for various reasons).

It takes seconds to add a CW and it will make people more comfortable engaging with and boosting your post too.

You can change settings so you see all the CW content if you like

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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @[email protected])

#CW #metaCW #standards
please be aware that the incompatible extension that mastodon introduced to implement CW is not portable across the entire fediverse. your CWs don't eve appear to me, and the software I use won't offer any means to add CWs to my own posts.
I've adopted a different, more portable standard extension, namely marking messages with the CW hashtag followed by the text to be displayed as CW, with a line break before the content proper.
your instance or app probably doesn't implement this extension yet (just like mine doesn't implement mastodon's), but at least you can see that I've marked the message with a CW, which is not the case of Mastodon's extension.
please support this extension, request Mastodon and other Fediverse programs to implement it, and request people to use it, so that we can have accessible CWs for everyone.