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Since Charlie Stross is like 10% of mastodon's entertainment value for me I don't want to unfollow him, but he constantly boosts UK Politics without tags I can filter or CWs I can pass over, so I am torn. It seems the old social rules still apply here, that celebrities can do whatever they want and it's only the plebes who have to follow the rules about tags and CWs or we'll get yelled at, while no one can do anything to stop celebrites from saying whatever they want until they actually ruin the platform through their self-centered carelessness. I see that most average users on here are pretty good about following the platform conventions, but are the only ones who get called out for breaking them. We can't have a two-class system here, where some people are allowed to break all the rules and get all the reach and engagement and other benefits from being the top dogs, and the rest of us just have to put up with it. For now, I'm just muting every account that Stross boosts without a ukpolitics tag (which I have never actually seen used by anyone, even though we Americans are always yelled at by folks in other countries for posting without a uspolitics tag), but I wish there was a better solution.