@freemo
Regarding arms posting -- I do cringe when an assault rifle photo is posted openly, I think we should revisit the Content Warning requirements.
As a sensitivity gesture to those who are victimized by violence, crime and warfare. The topic could still be acceptable, but with a CW and up to users discretion to open it or not.
One of the Very Distinctive features of Fediverse instances, compared to Twitter for example.
We don't need to go overboard, but while I am interested in arms, and had them in the past, I have so far avoided posting images that could lead to finger pointing and reputational damage to Qoto in the Fediverse.
Posting this Top Level, for Exposure and discussion.
in reply to a comment at : https://qoto.org/@freemo/104237494092425940
@Sphinx @arteteco
EDIT : Getting a Server 500 Error -- failure to upload media, both in Masto Web and Pinafore client.
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I think we need to be careful about enforcing CW as a policy and choosing your own personal limits on when to post CW.
As eugene puts it, CW is mostly a contract between the user and their followers.
People being sensaitive or offended by something shouldnt really be the measure. Our current CW rules around spoilers and nudity is a functional one, it would cause harm to people in a work place setting.
If we start catering to what a person sensative to or offended by something might not like we start down a rather nasty slippery slope in my opinion.. do we CW knives, off color jokes, how about posts criticizing men-s rights movement or feminism (for example snow was greatly offended to see such posts).
On any topic there will always be people who are offended by it, and to the people who have similar views it will hurt our reputation among that group. If we begin trying to accommodate anyone who might be offended by anything we will quickly find we either need to take sides or CW everything.
@freemo @design_RG @Sphinx @arteteco
> I have so far avoided posting images that could lead to finger pointing and reputational damage to Qoto in the Fediverse.
Are there that many gun-averse users in the #Fediverse?
Yes, most of the radical left servers (Which is a lot) probably fall under this description. Thankfully any radicalized servers (eft or right leaning) have likely long since silenced us.
@freemo @design_RG @Sphinx @arteteco Well, that's no fun. I wish differing ideologies were more tolerant and strive harder to coexist
> I wish differing ideologies were more tolerant and strive harder to coexist
yes, I think Live and Let Live is a good policy too.
While #QOTO has a very open and clear no-blocking-others policy, as a user I do take advantage of the controls available to all users -- and for a long time have personally BLOCKED the ones I percieve as hell holes and unworthy of listening to.
Which many others do block at the instance level. And I don't blame them, I find it perfectly acceptable in fact.
In a federation, the one who pays the bills for server and hosting can decide what they want. Anyone of us could run a small instance, and some do - it's not hard, an old laptop will do perfectly fine, just use Better Software (Pleroma).
