I love you guys, but if this service is going to challenge Twitter, eventually you are going to have to not be triggered so easily by politics.
@Migukin i actually like the fact that it's a cultural norm, to cw first. The feature is there, it gets used.
@Migukin have you considered that maybe being able to hide stuff and allowing other users to look at it when they're mentally prepared is actually a point in mastodon's favor because it picks up a big userbase of people who were turned off by the complete politicalness of birdsite
I understand. I would like to idly note that people are conditioned from Twitter to be able to have sometimes heated discussions on topics of the day. But I see that I am very much in the minority and will abide by the majority's wishes.
@Migukin alright, thanks for understanding!
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I understand. I don't have a problem with that. But the average "thought leader" currently on Twitter who might think about providing this platform with content probably will be turned off if they have to worry about such things. But....AGAIN...let me stress that I will abide by the wishes of the majority.
@Migukin Many users here consider that a feature, not a bug. :laughing:
For my own part, I wonder what the effects would be of requiring posts to be categorized before they are posted, allowing users to tune which topics they want warnings for automatically, which they don't mind seeing outright, and which they'd rather never see at all. I'm sure there are drawbacks (other than "it's too hard!") I haven't considered, yet, so feedback on that would be useful.
I am completely indifferent to this. Whatever. If you want a safe zone, then you get it. But not to sound like a jerk, but this service -- however promising it may be -- will remain a toy of sorts to the technically inclined if that "feature" is too strictly enforced. But I like this service, and don't want to troll anyone, even by accident, so I will abide silently.
@Migukin boo this man