> But not everyone is looking forward to the idea: “I’d go back to Usenet before I went back to Mastodon,” wrote Bluesky user Count Von Horse Knuckler. “I do not need people yelling at me for not putting cat pictures behind trigger warnings or unwanted Linux advice.”
Cat pictures need a trigger warning? Wonder what the triggering effect is there?
I can see Linux advice though: kill, mount, etc.
> I can see Linux advice though: kill, mount, etc.
And cat. Some people are triggered by useless use of cat.
I can see that. I am even guilty of using cat a bit too much.
> Cat pictures need a trigger warning?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbol...
It seems a bit random though. Are mastodon people big on trigger warnings? I never signed up for it. Heck, I never signed up for twitter or bluesky either. For mastodon I considered it, but telling people "ha, ha, I am writing toots" was a little too silly, even for me.
Not on trigger warnings, but on content warnings on general. It folds the post by default, but shows the warning description so it's useful for lots of reason.
For example "USpol" is often used as common CW but not specifically TW. But it could be "boob", or "giant spider", or "furry", or "food photo", or "super long post" whatever else you think people may react to with "I wish I didn't have to see that while scrolling the timeline". It's really just about making it a nicer place to others. It's common, but it's not like people expect you to put USpol warning on posts from account which deals only with politics.
On bluesky, the self-applied user moderation is abused in a similar way to hide spoilers.
If you post an image, you can tick the "Adult Content" box and it has that label applied to it. It's the only way to do that currently.
That makes sense, thank you for explaining
They seem to be saying that they don't know how to use Mastodon.
I guess? They just seemed to reference some story or situation I am not familiar with
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