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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

in four? months I don't think I've seen a single person use an NSFW tag or content warning as a joke. i'm sorry to put this evil on you and no pun is intended but i am astonished at how adult everyone is being about this.

i absolutely expect every single post i see with a clickthrough to just be a picture of bread or a dickbutt or something and every single time, to date, it has actually contained either horny or upsetting or both. i'm just flabbergasted. i did not know it was possible for people to not be children about this. i have no idea where to even begin

edit: i forgot to mention that the best thing is that when everyone acts normal about this, actually pitches in and does it right instead of pretending it's still, somehow, a hilarious joke to put an innocuous picture behind an nsfw tag, it means that when you get excited because you might see someone naked, that actually happens, like 10 out of 10 times, instead of just disappointing you when it turns out to just be a picture of a fat cat

this is a huge improvement over the "lucy holding the football"-ass experience that happens nearly 100% of the time on, say, Fucking Mastodon


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I can't quite explain it but there's a real "haha, while this is legally allowed to have been a sex thing, I would never be so vulnerable as to post something genuinely horny" vibe about how this runs sometimes and it's nice to be in an environment where 1) people are posting their porn, and 2) the features to be responsible about it were included as a good thing to have right off and didn't come in long after the Porn Existing Online Wars had begun.

well the porn existing online wars are ancient but i get your meaning. it's incredible how effective it is to have the owners of a website actually speak plainly about how it should be used. if twitter implemented this feature they would never, ever admit that it was for porn ("adult content :)") in the same way that incognito mode is solely intended for looking up anniversary gifts for your wife of ten years without her finding out about the surprise from your browser history

reminded of the time someone i once followed on masto posted a toot with a cw that said 'meta discourse' or w/e and i opened it and it was just an obnoxious promo for their radio show and i was like 'uggggghh' and immediately unfollowed them

so glad this isn't a thing on cohost

The level of overapplication of CW on Mastodon is buckwild. It feels like people use it more like a tag system than an actual content warning. There's a toot on my feed right now that's "CW: game violence" and it's just a picture of a shooter character holding a gun.

i am not completely convinced that there isn't someone who has a genuinely bad reaction to such an image, but at that point i just don't know what the plan is for combining "posting about your life in any detail whatsoever" and "never conceivably upsetting someone, no matter how distant or unlikely, or how far they have to go to get from their microscopic comfort zone to your post, and how many opportunities they had along the way to realize this was not a safe trajectory for them." we are in the cw:food timeline so i have simply assumed everyone doing this on masto is serious as the morgue about it