Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").
Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.
Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?
I really like the "opportunistic CW", I think of "opportunistic encryption" and it makes sense.
Not sure? Just put one. It doesn't cost you anything and may make someone's day better.
These are the sorts of guidelines I can really get behind. https://octodon.social/about/more
Mostly because I'm tap tap save saving my username just in case. Because, I dunno, reasons.
