I'm really excited that cohost has tag muffles now (go read about it if you haven't seen yet!), and I think this is a great chance for us to establish an important new cultural norm.
Up until now, if you wanted to hide a post that might bother someone, the thing to do has been to CW it to hide it by default. With tag muffles, users now have the ability to preemptively protect themselves: as long as you tag something properly, users can decide for themselves if they want it hidden or not. CWs are still useful for content you think you should be hidden by default for all users, but I'd encourage everyone to think about using tags as way to let people choose what they do or don't want to see going forward.
I think this is going to be especially important for things like food, eye contact, etc. These are common, normal parts of experience that a majority of people won't have trouble with but a minority would prefer not to see. Hiding it by default is unnecessarily intrusive if there's another way for users to protect themselves - and now there is!
worth noting too that tag muffles work on the entire tag string... so it's probably better to tag posts "food" than any more complicated things like "cw: food" or "food cw" or any of the infinite variations, because then people who need the muffle don't have to keep adding terms to their list
I personally have a philosophy of tagging the most-likely problem subjects as simply as possible for exactly this reason!
