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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 04:41:58 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • dynamic
   because I use a fediverse node that doesn't support CW, I'm finding such mentions of CW as mandatory to be extremely upsetting. could people who wish to mandate or block nodes over CW please mark their posts to that effect so that I can avoid seeing those posts?
   half kidding.
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     dynamic (dynamic@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 04:42:02 JST dynamic

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     CWs can be used in different ways... as subject lines, as trigger warnings, as general content warnings, as a way of decreasing text. In each case, some users like them, and some maybe don't like them, or even dislike them.

     Because Mastodon allows so many tools for users to decide whose content and what content to see or not see, it is actually pretty good at supporting this kind of divesrsity.

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     dynamic (dynamic@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 04:42:04 JST dynamic

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     In the case of journalists who were put off by having been blocked for not CW'ing political posts, one thing I think that needs to be emphasized is that Mastodon is not one single community. Different instances and cross-instance social networks have different norms.

     Just because one instance blocks your toots does not mean that Mastodon as a whole isn't interested in them.

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     dynamic (dynamic@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 04:42:05 JST dynamic

     It looks like there's some tension arising around norms for the use of CWs on Mastodon, e.g. the thread here, on a journalism instance that got blocked by some servers for not using CWs for politics: https://hcommons.social/@jburnford/109313810564907086