So, can someone explain to me why people who don't like posts about politics can't just not follow people who post about politics?
Genuine question. Because I do feel that the stakes are society itself, and the life or death of millions, and I do feel that OStatus/GNU Social could and should play an important role in this.
A civil discussion on this would be appreciated.
@forteller because of federation, your politics post might show up in a bunch of other mastodon instances where folks are generally trying to avoid the 👎 stuff they already get on twitter.
Write about politics, fine, but it seems etiquette on mastodon is to use the content warning feature and flag that a post is a political rant.
@tcql But everyone is free to follow and unfollow whoever they like.
It seems strange to me that noone should use this general communications tool for the most important topics in the world because someone follows the entire stream instead of making their own by following the people they would like to see.
@forteller yea, people will customize their timelines by following people they like, but sometimes it's fun to just watch the federated timeline and find new things.
You can still toot about politics, it's just more respectful of other peoples' boundaries if you use the content warning feature.