"we need to retire the term NSFW"
okay, please do 30 years of getting people all over to switch in a day so that I can actually switch to muffling the new term too. Until then I'm stuck using the ubiquitous one, and so is everyone who wants to let people muffle it.
"not all workplaces aren't cool with it" okay but no one else uses any other words. people tried to get people to use "lewd", but that didn't have enough of a critical mass because most people still only tag things nsfw
and you need to tag the things, because you're then letting people consent to "maybe being fired" or "maybe reading their feed on a fuckin bus where they'll be Put In A Position for it scrolling past in the wrong time"
and i'm worried with how many people keep thinking other people's livelihoods in a cold job market are like, a thing you have the right to say no to.
cohost has the 18+ flag, i wish people used it more because so much un-folded porn still ends up on my feed, and I have to muffle #nsfw.
but until that ends, you'll still need a tag, and the only tag everyone posting consistently uses (if they bother to at all) is #nsfw.
(to be clear, I'm cool with "the language sucks and we need something different", I'm not cool with "and we should all move away from it" until we change the rest of the world.)
related reading: https://cohost.org/JhoiraArtificer/post/3294096-https-www-tumblr-c
the best writers also share porn. All I want is a way to have it be safe to scroll through the TL while existing in public, thanks. I've worked and am working to change the social structures, as with a lot of us working jobs where they'd be fired for it, but that doesn't mean we're not stuck within the bounds of them.