The Kinsie

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The Kinsie @Kinsie12/20/2022, 4:25 AM

I've noticed a lot of Mastodon users seem to have a weird trend of marking literally everything as "sensitive content" even when it very clearly isn't. I first noticed this with some screenshots of Doom maps (of course), and initially just chalked it up to one of those people being a huge weirdo based on past interactions. But apparently this is like a thing there? Blanket content warnings regardless of necessity?

Maybe I'm just old and don't properly understand our modern, more considerate-ish internet, but that seems like it'd diminish the usefulness of such a feature and inure people to just clicking past that warning over and over until they suddenly get a face full of war crimes or whatever. Which probably isn't a good thing!

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liffy 💜@lifning12/20/2022, 4:53 AM

the pictured account seems to be from the all-bots instance, and bots that aren't carefully curated are often configured to blanket CW anything they repost from some other source

The Kinsie @Kinsie12/20/2022, 5:21 AM

That tracks, but I've noticed this with humans, too. I've been told that this is a """"""""clever"""""""" trick to reduce bandwidth usage since the image used for the blurred version is really really small.

esselfortium @esselfortium12/20/2022, 6:02 AM

i don't think anyone's actually using it to reduce bandwidth, i think a certain person just habitually likes to pretend they know what they're talking about

The Kinsie @Kinsie12/20/2022, 7:10 AM

Maybe, but I’m not exactly rushing to conduct my own investigations because, you know, not my circus. :V

BUGHOLDER'S EPIPHANY @bugholdersepiphany12/20/2022, 7:04 PM

Yeah, a friend of mine who used Mastodon for a while cited this as one of their biggest gripes with the platform due to how just about anything from food to random images like the example you posted is just, marked as sensitive content. Which... kinda defeats the purpose of the sensitive content tag??

🌊@wave12/22/2022, 6:58 AM

this was actually a factor that made me stop using it around the start of the pandemic. i was in a bad mh place and began to feel the widely felt expectations to CW and alt-tag seemingly everything onerous when i just needed to vent.

my prior instance is actually closing for good end of month. i need to export my posts and figure out if i want to create another account elsewhere. i feel social media just drains time from my days so i'm not feeling too enthusiastic about starting there again. but i also feel pressure to Be Seen and to Be Part Of The Conversation. seems dumb but yes

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