@lauren @mattblaze Oh, I'd believe it. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy " is the rule for social networks of this style.

I "met" someone on here once who I got into a heated argument with over whether HTTPS did more harm than good (not in a "boy is security hard to implement security right" sense, but in an "enables pedophiles" sense; their response to the reasonable counterpoint if "it also enables all online commerce" was "Well everyone should just use wired connections where the physical medium is trusted." I ended up just having to block them because some people you just can't.

On the CW topic: I think the question of who's responsibility filtering content is isn't settled etiquette in the Fediverse yet (beyond some broad-brush common consensus like "Should probably flag NSFW"). I doubt the system scales reasonably if too much onus is put on the content source, and I prefer enabling clients to do tight-grained filtering like "Oof, I like Matt Blaze's commentary but his art is depressing me... Hey my client, keep showing me Matt's stuff but default his images to 'blurred'" is probably what the future looks like (maybe with a way to easily share those filter options around).

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@mattblaze

I have in general found Fediverse CW culture really strange and oddly focused. It's kind of like when you have a food that is supposed to have some spice mixed evenly into the food but it wasn't mixed right and the spice sticks together so mostly the food is a bit bland except occasionally it's suddenly ALL SPICE.

That's what I find Fediverse CW culture like: if a post goes viral and spreads it'll run into clumps of users with the most quixotic CW expectations.

This is a version of a very thorny problem -- otherwise lovely progressive leftists so rigid in their worldview that they can tolerate no flexibility.

Frankly it gives the right-wing ammunition and that alone is unforgivable.

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I know there are profile settings you can pick to set default image handling. The exact details depend on how you're accessing the Fediverse. That sort of user can set up his access to protect himself.

I have several disabilities of my own. I have some strong opinions about the way some people politicise health issues. Very strong opinions, which could be be sung to the tune of "Colonel Bogey", and would need a Content Warning of their own.