Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jul 30, 2023

A lion's share of the people @kissane surveyed responded that they left #Mastodon because they got yelled at, scolded and lectured when they were here. One major source for this appears to be unrealistic expectations for the use of content warnings.
I have been lectured for CWs & for posts that contradicts an "accepted" narrative. I feel surprisingly horrid after each lecture 😅
I like its decentralised nature, but it can get toxic here.

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https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

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@liztai @kissane Somehow as a Mastodon newbie I managed to internalize the local ethos of "content warnings really are important" while never wavering an inch on the necessary truculent correlate "nobody but me gets to decide when a CW is needed or how it should be written, and if they don't like it, I got a free block for them right damn here".
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@ErosBlog @kissane I do CW but some insist on gating perfectly reasonable posts, and that is very irritating. I won't go beyond what is necessary - ie spoilers, political stuff, death and violence.
Jul 30, 2023 at 12:50amWeb
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@liztai @kissane My heaviest use of CW is for my adult stuff, necessarily. However I am quite crosswise with CWs for politics, because everything is politics if you stare at it hard enough. So I limit my politics CWs to my deliberate shitposts and anything that is controversial among decent people as I understand them.