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Dan Gillmor Jul 29, 2023

I hope that Mastodon folks who like to scold newcomers will realize how off-putting -- and damaging -- that behavior is.

Please be helpful, not scornful. Let's reduce the genuine risk of poisoning fediverse growth, and thereby giving social-media oligarchs indefinite control over online discourse.

Having said that, Mastodon/fediverse could/should do more to make users' experiences more gratifying.

Read this essential post from @kissane to understand more. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

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Andy McKay Jul 29, 2023

@dangillmor @kissane

"About half of the people whose primary or secondary reasons fit into this category talked about content warnings, and most of those responses pointed to what they perceived as unreasonable—or in several cases anti-trans or racist—expectations for content warnings."

"Others said that their fear of unintentionally breaking CW expectations or other unwritten rules of fedi made them too anxious to post, or made posting feel like work."

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Andy McKay Jul 29, 2023

@dangillmor @kissane That has certainly been my experience, along with scolding by white knights for not using image descriptions which made me want to use them even less. I post images a lot and having to describe every one in detail is tiresome.

I'm staying because I like the decentralised, open-source aspect, but I'm posting on my terms. I figure we are all adults so people are welcome to block me if they need/want to. I certainly do with other people.

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Black Chic with the Red Truck Jul 29, 2023

@KorimakoEcology @dangillmor @kissane
Still seems like a strange logic to say, “oh these requests for cw or alttext are a lot, so I will just go back to the blatantly abusive dumpster fire I came from or maybe choose another equally offensive dumpster fire…”
Like- ok… 🤔
Personally it only took me a little bit of lurking before I felt comfortable and understood the culture well enough to start posting and I’m assuming it would be that way on any other platform. 🤷🏾‍♀️
But yes- people should post as they want and let the chips fall where they may- as they do everywhere else.

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jeSuisatire neindochohh ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

@ReneeWestberry
Well said!
Like really .. you claim people here are not kind because they ask you to be kind to the visualy impaired and add some alttext or Wrap up your Content (CW) [I definitely don't agree on "warnings", there are filters for that].
It's way more intriguing to search inside myself why and how some actually minor things like that create such strange reactions in me and find lot of illness drowning in dopamin.

And that really worries me.

@KorimakoEcology @dangillmor @kissane