Notices by Cleo of Topless Topics (toplesstopics@eldritch.cafe), page 2

@Radical_EgoCom that's not why someone would name themselves that on twitter, though.

@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

@atomicpoet
an addendum to this idea, which I agree with (hence the boost). I understand that a lot of masto users want to keep their posts from being easily searchable outside of their pre-approved pool--and that's great, more power to them. certainly I have posts sometimes I don't want any random person seeing and turning into a "reply guy" on.

but on th he other hand, some of us WANT our posts to show up for others, namely #contentCreators like me. I don't put 20+ hours into filming a video essay extolling the values of #feminism, #lgbtq #genderEquality, etc for just a small handful of existing supporters to watch. and people who are interested in finding more material on a certain subject (outside of programming and infosec 😜) are going to quickly give up on mastodon if every time they search for something like, say, #vidcon, they get no results.

if the goal is really to encourage others to leave "siloed" mainstream platforms, there has to be content here to fill the void that the corrupt platforms currently fill (at the expense of personal data and arbitrary #censorship). it's like saying "don't go to McDonald's, come to this amazing mom. and pop restaurant instead!" but there is no visible menu and you have to know someone who knows someone that knows what the restaurant offers to even order food in the first place.

BTW putting hashtags in front of things like I did in this post makes me want to vomit, because it feels like I'm trying to be a sell out, but I have to do it if I want to open up the conversation for people who don't already follow @atomicpoet or people who boost him?)

@atomicpoet
I just don't understand what the difficulty is in establishing some way to intentionally opt-in to set certain posts as "visible to anyone on the fediverse," not just people in your instance or who people in your instance already follow. like a bulletin board in a town square vs a bulletin board in a niche tabletop gaming store.
@drupalthoughts