JonMar 20

Hey Mastodon, what's the latest take on content warnings?

When I first joined there seemed to be a lot more. In fact, when I posted my introductory post, I mentioned that I was a psychotherapist and I got some push back from folks about not putting a mental health content warning on it!

So...where are we with CW's? I have found blocking certain hashtags better for myself, but wanted to check and see what others are doing.

Thoughts?

#CW #ContentWarning

Show threadMelissaMar 20
@jkirkendall
Lots of different choices...I try to CW food and USPol and not post horrific stuff, since it's rarely unique. My filters work pretty well.
I like it when people use CWs for mental health, PTSD...I'll often bookmark and come back to read it later, when I'm feeling able to say something kind.
Show threadJon

@mtechman Thanks for your really thoughtful response! Over the past few years I've noticed that I've moved towards filtering hashtags and find that on my end that works just fine, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything!

Currently I'm cw-ing hard or challenging news, and I've found that adding a cw about my current health (lupus stuff) feels right, too - helps me navigate that line of sharing info that friends on here might want to know, without it being a sort of 'poor me' post!

Mar 20 at 5:39pmWeb