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@atomicpoet
also-also, content warnings are buggy AF, and another huge turnoff for mainstream platform users. on every app that has the option, I check "auto expand every content warning," yet still on most of them, any post, even my own, gets truncated to only a few words, requiring me to manually expand every single paost, including in a thread. it's an unreasonable expectation if you want people to fully explore a thread, or keep up with more than a small handful of people you follow who post no more than a few times a day.

it also, again, is a huge detractor for content creators, who know that 99% of people are not going to bother pressing "expand to read more," so time and effort wise, there's no point in not continuing to post to mainstream sites. but I understand how people with a lot of triggers around things that the majority of people wouldn't consider triggering, like food and eye contact and pictures of dogs etc, and therefore wouldn't think to censor ahead of time, and if they don't also put it as a hashtag, then auto-filtering out that term doesn't work either (I think?)

sorry this is getting rambly, what I'm trying to say is, if the goal is to leech people away from toxic mainstream platforms, then there have to be existing carrots to lure them here, and not hide each carrot behind a locked cage. but at the same time, for those who don't want anyone they haven't pre-approved for giving carrots to, to not have the key to THEIR cages. does that make sense? lol