David ColburnHave even longtime #Mastodon users largely abandoned the use of content warnings for things like politics or discussions of #Twitter or whatnot? When I joined ~6 weeks ago, CWs were widely used, but now I feel like I almost never see them. I kinda like them, as much for their usefulness as a subject line as for a warning about objectionable or disturbing content. Thoughts?
AI6YR Ben@colburn New influx of users (yet again) who don't understand content warnings. It's going to be yet another back and forth on what was the culture here versus everyone bringing in their habits from the birdsite.
@ai6yr Maybe, although it feels like the non-CW side has already won. Even before this week's latest influx, I rarely saw CWs anymore. (Although admittedly, my sample set is probably skewed, because I follow a lot of recent arrivals.)
@colburn Yes, when you add a few million people into any place they bring their culture with them. I think the strongly CW crowd drowned out by the recent voices, at least at the moment.
@ai6yr I think that if the software prompted people to include a CW, rather than making them actively click in order to include a CW, that might increase their use a lot. Basically change it from an opt-in system to an opt-out system in order to nudge people towards using CWs. Just thinking out loud here LOL.
JadeDraggin@colburn I saw a post, reblogged by someone I follow expressing the opinion that they weren't going to use CW because you can just unfollow me. I had to point out with Mastedon's reblog feature I got their post and I don't follow them. We really need to have that CW for that reason. I for one, don't want to see politics & twitface posts.
@twolt I wonder if a tweak to the Mastodon software which prompted people by default to use CWs (instead of having the CW be an option which people need to make a choice to actively click on) would increase their use. Basically change it to an opt-out option for CWs when writing posts, instead of opt-in. Same goes for alt text in images.