Notices by Sylvhem (sylvhem@eldritch.cafe)

Enfin ! Après toutes ces années, je vais enfin pouvoir jouer de nouveau à « The Stanley Parable ».

#TheStanleyParable

@nileane Yeah, having a HiFi setup tends to do that to you 😔.

@lord 😭

@ombremad I still can’t believe people tried to push so hard for Matrix every time I mentioned XMPP a few years ago…

Like take encrypted XMPP, remove the federation, make using a phone number mandatory, using a smartphone app mandatory and make sure your desktop app use Electron, and then you got Signal 😐.

My hot take is that Signal is just encrypted XMPP but bad.

@flobe « Téléphone de marque Thomson »

Le téléphone : Alcatel

One last thing: yes, Content Warnings may not be useful as a mental health tool, and yes, exposure therapy is probably the best way to treat PTSD and phobia.

But, and I’ll say this as somebody who is violently arachnophobic, I’m not login on social websites in hope to fix my arachnophobia. If I want to have therapy, I’ll go see a fucking therapist, thank you very much. I don’t need people jumping at me screaming “Unscheduled therapy time!” holding a magnified picture of a spider to my face. I’m already exposed enough as it is in my daily life, thank you.

Les Content Warning sont honnêtement une des principales raisons pour lesquelles Mastodon est moins oppressant que plein d’autres réseaux sociaux. Utilisez-les bon sang.

Every time I talk about Content Warnings, there somebody that feels the need to point to a meta-analysis in psychology that supposedly proves that trigger warnings were useless.

I usually ignore it, because Content Warnings on the Fediverse have a broder use that the initial intended purpose of trigger warnings, i.e. helping people suffering from PTSD to avoid material that may trigger an anxiety attack. But today, I decided to actually look at the study.

https://osf.io/preprints/osf/qav9m

First, it appears the meta-analysis actually define trigger warnings in a way that is close to some of the more common use of the Content Warnings on the Fediverse: “Trigger warnings, content warnings, or content notes are alerts about upcoming content that may contain themes related to past negative experiences.”. So, it turns out I was wrong about that.

But what are the conclusions of that meta-analysis? “Overall, we found that warnings have no effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes (i.e., comprehension). However, warnings reliably increase anticipatory affect. Findings on avoidance were mixed, suggesting either that warnings have no effect on engagement with material, or that they increase engagement with negative material under specific circumstances. Limitations and implications for policy and therapeutic practice are discussed.”

Basically they conclude that:
1) CW are not very effective at making stressful content less stressful;
2) there is however no proof that people are avoiding material when there is a CW on it.
So they advise to not use them “as a
mental health tool”.

But here is the thing. On the Fediverse, Content Warnings are first and foremost a tool of consent. They allow you to engage with some material in your own terms, rather than being passively fed them.

Moreover, a recurring critic addressed to other social websites is that everything on it has the same level of importance: news about wars and pictures of cats occupe the same space and may be next to one another. When used correctly, CW help to address this problem. Selfies of my friends are no longer found right next to pictures of dead children or rape testimonies. I have no proof of this, but I strongly suspect this is why the Fediverse feels a lot less bleak and anxiety-inducing to me. I still see depressing news, but they are now there separate thing always to be a constant background news I have to scroll past every time I want to look at some art.

@modnarwave Océane 😭

J’ai pas envie d’être celle qui répète en boucle « Le service public, c’était souvent mieux avant. », mais j’avoue qu’il y avait une certaine simplicité à l’ancien système postal français qui semble faire défaut tout de suite.
Juste connaître le poids de sa lettre ou de son colis, regarder les tarifs en fonction du poids pour une destination précise et coller le nombre approprié de timbres, ça me semble très attirant quand confrontée au fonctionnement actuel.

Purée, à chaque fois que je vais à la Poste, je me dis que cette fois je vais mémoriser le processus, et à chaque fois je ressort de là en n’ayant rien compris à ce qui s’est passé.
Est-ce que je vais pouvoir utiliser mes timbres ? Est-ce que je dois écrire l’adresse sur l’enveloppe ou ce qu’il faut au contraire que je ne l’écrive pas ? Est-ce que je vais devoir cliquer sur « Acheter un emballage » ou « Acheter un produit » sur l’automate ? Est-ce qu’on va avoir besoin de mon numéro de téléphone ? Est-ce que ? Est-ce que ?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah !
Dites moi que je ne suis pas la seule à qui ça arrive, parce que là je me sens stupide 😭.

@VioB MDR, c’est exactement comme ça que je me sens à chaque fois que je met les pieds là-bas 😭.

@dolfsquare En même temps ils auraient fait quoi d’autre ?

The only good thing about “transvestigators” is that they are making it really obvious a lot of cis people have pretty good transpassing.

@VioB J’avoue le coup de la moustache c’est chaud quand même. Tellement réaliste.

@VioB Never gets old.

On commence fort avec un post qui étend le principe aux femmes qui ont juste des grands fronts.

J’en ai tellement marre des gens de gauche qui se moquent de la calvitie des autres, que j’ai décidé de commencer un fil sur le sujet. À chaque fois que j’en vois un nouveau, j’en ajouterais une capture d’écran ici.