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I follow someone who posts a variety of things including their black and white photography - to be clear, completely normal photography of completely normal things like bridges, houses, monuments, etc. Multiple times some rando has yelled at them that you can't just post black and white photography without a content warning.

I recently was able to see a post from mastodon.art for the first time (an instance that blocks any instance that has ever been targeted with any kind of controversy, which often means small instances with queer women on them)

The post was tagged "cw: eye contact"

I set up my clients to expand all content warnings. But because of the CW, my instance had fetched only a blurred version of the image. Because of a failure in Mastodon communication, the unblurred version would not load.

Amazing system all around.

the main reason "CW: vegan food" makes sense is that some people's problem is with all food pics and for others it's non-vegan ones

but yeah, who CWs how much is A Thing and then boosting happens (I mostly don't CW enough, though tbf I do a lot more replying)

edit: I guess I should clarify - presumably if asked to CW for food (because eating disorders etc) you'd do so? Only, Because People, someone who would want a non-vegan food CW want doesn't know you doesn't know that "food" would imply vegan from you - it's not a tag system, it's plain text and people are left having to infer what isn't explicit based on wider usage patterns.

"can you trigger tag cars please"

"no but i can sic my lesbians on you"