CW - "Mastodon Culture"
I'd like to share another thought on the CW after encountering a few more thoughts on it.
Most civil instances encourage it's use, when the poster thinks they may be sharing something a little heavy for relative strangers to approach.
There's a flip side, though. Some people don't use it because they are here to be their whole selves. Out, trans, neurodivergent, living with mental or chronic illness, whatever.
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CW - "Mastodon Culture"
I would suggest - exercise your own empathy muscle, use CW and build the habit within your own awareness.
BUT....
It is not for you, or me, or any mod or admin, to demand or enforce it's use ***particularly*** of anyone for whom such a demand might be oppressive.
what do you do if you think someone else "missed" applying a CW?
Move along. Mute or block them if they disturb you. While it's nice to apply the courtesy yourself, we don't REQUIRE it of others. 2/2
CW - "Mastodon Culture"
This makes a lot of sense. Someone called me out for not tagging a pic once and it bothered me for reasons I couldn't articulate at the time.
Of course I said nothing about it, since I didn't know if I was justified in feeling weird about the situation. I think this clarifies things.
