labib @labib@octodon.social

Having moderated a large online community for about a decade now, I'm finding the collective arguing about CW protocol and kindness vs. freedom interesting and familiar and tiring and valuable all in a mix.

Community self-identification is a weird process, and I think I am mostly glad that mastodon doesn't by its very structure require the answer to be monolithic and universal.

But I will tip my hand a little and say that erring on the side of kindness is pretty much always defensible.

FWIW CWs on politics toots started cuz we generally always did just shitpost on the PTL but the moment someone brought up your orange president it would bring the whole timeline down.

You know, like on birb site? But if we all did the cw thing you wouldn't have to leave every five hours so you wouldn't hit your head on the wall, like on birb site.

This isn't the birb site. Let's keep it that way

Is there a protocol for asking people to add content warnings to future toots about a particular subject? I mean, au pire, someone decides not too and I can then mute certain keywords or user accounts, but is it okay to ask people? I see a few awkward suicide references being used as analogies in federated timeline for totally unrelated subjects, and I'm thinking that that's the kind of thing I would ideally like seeing content warnings for? enfin, thinking/tooting out loud

You know what else I like about masto, how thumbnails are v small and deemphasized. Looking at birbsite, I'm realizing now how much graphics have taken it over.

I feel like we are living in that montage from The Social Network where everyone is happily trying facebook for the first time and trent reznor is dropping cool beats.

I think that was before the "chicken cannibalism" sequence though so everyone be safe out there.

Hey I'm confused, I can't find Lance Ulanoff? :sweat:

NYC area Mastodon people:

Do you want to go to the Whitney Museum for free tomorrow evening?

The Whitney's member night is tomorrow from 730PM - 1000PM and I can bring a guest. There will activities and seminars and of course the Biennial.

Consider this an open invitation.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-whitney-biennials-political-mood https://octodon.social/media/cZyiiTNKQW5zPZmD_wc

Ok guys, very funny.

There's something strangely thrilling about talking to you group of random strangers that I don't get when I flip back to Facebook and see posts of people I've grown up with. Maybe I don't like them as much as I thought I did 😂