You know? If everyone who gets triggered by something asked for that thing to have a CW the whole internet would be posts with a CW.
Wanna share a pic of your pet spider? You're triggering people with arachnophobia.
A beautiful picture of the ocean? Thalassophobia.
Pet snake? Herpetophobia.
There's a phobia for anything, hell there's a phobia for long words and, ironically, it's name is a long ass word.
I have a phobia too and I asked only a few friends who post things that spook me to CW those, but I'm not asking the whole internet.
I understand wanting to browse without dealing with stressful/spooky shit, but we can't expect everyone to put a CW on literally everything just in case.
We just need a new system we can use filters with so that we can curate our own timeline removing shit we dont wanna see and just leave content warnings for spoilers.
@raccoon The CW system on here is more or less a replacement for the tumblr tagging system people used CWs for on that platform. People cant really block tags unless people put hashtags in all related posts and CWs are a good way to make sure people dont see content that tends to be more affiliated with traumatic experiences
CWs are also used on here as a way to let people ignore topics or longer posts that might not be interesting to them, or to add a title to a post that requires that context
@chalkllate@wolfdo.gg
It's not a replacement for that because CW were on fedi before the wave of twitter and tumblr users came.
It's also very much possible to put hashtags on posts and each user can put those on filters they can use to exclude them to prevent them from showing.
If instead of putting so much effort into selfishly asking people to put a CW on the one thing we are triggered by we tried to spread the healthy habit of tagging stuff everyone would benefit from it.
@raccoon I dont see overused CWs on fedi at all tbh, most of the CW-ed stuff is NSFW and kink and thats because those are things that rightfully need them with how prevalent SA is and how minors exist on these platforms who would require that filter anyway
@chalkllate@wolfdo.gg and yeah I don't see it being overused either but I see people asking from time to time to cw some stuff.
"Please put a CW on thing"
Mostly they get ignored I guess, which is yet another reason why we should find a better way
@getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
Sometimes the alt text is so fucking verbose that it blocks the view on part of the picture, we're going full circle.
@getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
And yeah CW have a reason to exist, I just think we're starting to misuse them.
@raccoon This is one of those things that AI would actually be a good solution for. Have a computer read the post and decide whether or not you would personally want to see a content warning for it.
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer
You're not the first to tell me this, you're not wrong but I think it would take a toll on the servers of small instances.
@mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website
Yeah I remember.
Man I'm repetitive, I didn't remember whining about this before, I'm turning into my dad but only in the bad things without the good.
@getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
Yes and no. Again think about phobias and pictures.
My phobia is severe, if I see the thing on my screen I have to look away and blindly figure out how to hide it or call my wife.
@raccoon never mind the instance, it can run on whatever device said person is browsing with. Put the burden on those that want to use it.
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer makes sense I guess
@mischievoustomato@rebased.taihou.website @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
Imagine if I was tomatophobic
@anonicus@shitposter.world
Yeah pretty much. I can't be expected to CW pictures of bottles because someone I don't even know might find them spooky.
I will, however, put a CW on anything a friend asks me to.
@sun@shitposter.world @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
I absolutely agree. Tags would solve everything here and mastodon fucking sucks.
@sun@shitposter.world @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
It's not pathetic, it's OK, we all get peeved by some stuff, dont be harsh on yourself :)
You're a great guy my friend, I think you can forgive yourself a few pet peeves.
@apophis@brain.worm.pink @sun@shitposter.world @getimiskon@fedi.getimiskon.xyz
People would abuse it tho
@raccoon I personally just like needed content cw'd and actual spoilers for movies. Otherwise i am fine with everything else.
I also get politics but 🤷
@blackwolf@meow.social
I feel like spoilers and NSFW are really the only ones.