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@nex3

I really hope at some point cohost adds the ability to opt in or out of specific tags being treated as content warnings. I don't usually cw stuff like alcohol or food because I don't want to make it a click-through for the majority of people who don't care, but I feel bad that makes following me worse or impossible for people who do.

I think the ideal situation would be for me to list those as normal tags, and for people to be able to upgrade them to content warnings or mute them entirely at their preference. Similarly, I'd like to be able to downgrade some content warnings so that they're open by default for me without disabling the feature entirely.

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antumbral
@antumbral

Yeah that would be great. There's a lot of stuff I can imagine one or two people out there needing a content warning for, but I've never met them so I don't have a good sense of what to tag or why.

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numberonebug
@numberonebug

Shel had a really good post about opt-in vs opt-out culture and I think yeah we need to make this an opt-out space. If you don't want to see something you should be able to opt out, instead of having to ask that everyone else opt-in to seeing something

Also idk as an ex anorexic I get Real uncomfortable that people cw food. Like maybe there's another reason for it, but if it's for people with anxiety around food and eating disorders then it's doing way more harm than good

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shel
@shel

Yeah I think the way CWs were handled on mastodon was a huge part of why it felt so hostile and unwelcoming. What especially got to me was how everyone seemed to agree that some people having scopophobia meant all selfies needed eye contact content warnings but whenever I asked for Cannabis to be tagged since it is a drug like alcohol that many people can have trauma around (including myself) I would get dog piled with harassment from people insisting nobody in the world has ever been hurt by cannabis.

The Tumblr Savior model really was the best model. The same tags used for discover ability could be used for filtering. That way people would be encouraged to tag things without it hiding their post or feeling like they're calling it a bad thing, and people could decide for themselves what they want to see. I don't need alcohol tagged but I know now people in recovery who do. But I do really want people to tag for cannabis, which apparently a lot of people see as unreasonable or an attack on them personally for suggesting

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dog
@dog

Strongly agreed. The problem with Mastodon I think is that it had a technical problem which turned into a cultural problem, and the culture has become so self-reinforcing I can't imagine it changing without substantial resistance. The spoiler tag-turned-CW being all or nothing and allowing no real user-side filtering is what's led to such pressure to aggressively CW tag anything anyone could be bothered by (except cannabis!! apparently!), and the fact that your only other option is to display all CWed content by default is... not great.

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