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😱 I think
@Gargron is wrong about #Mastodon 😜
* I like that others raise awarness about that and they should!
It's a public space and it is created together
It is true that one can decide what to see and what not, but (non)awarness about the usage of cw also effects the culture as a whole. ...abilities/needs y'know
Also it's great to tell others if you would prefer a cw
The phillosophy you use, ablied to nazis sounds like:
'just look away if you don't like it'
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I agree with @paulfree14. CWs exist primarily for the benefit of readers, not writers. If the writer only uses them how *they* see fit, then any discrepancy between that and what their readers need/prefer represents a problem.
Readers talking about what *they* would prefer is part of the process of arriving at good uses.
Unfollowing and muting are crude solutions at best, and exist on pretty much every other social platform ever. Mastodon is better than that.
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@woozle @Gargron @paulfree14 I don't want anyone telling me how to use a functionality or not. This is federated space, that's why. No, it's not public space. If it were, there would be crazy differences in how people act: some would watch people go naked, as it is legal in their country, or even make love in a park, as it is legal in their country, while others would chase them with pitchforks, as Trump is legal in their country.
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@paulfree14 @woozle @Gargron You misread me obviously.
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Please be kind and explain to me what are the implications of what I said that I do not understand.
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You are agreeing that just unfollowing people is insufficient remedy for dealing with problematic behavior, yes?
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I didn't know I ever mentioned that. I talked about the CW functionality, and how reader's morality as a guideline to use it was inadequate.
Dealing with "problematic behavior" doesn't mean much to me, since there are such behaviors that we may agree to qualify as problematic, and others that we might disagree qualifying as problematic... According to our ethics, right?
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Did I misread you here? --
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me: if you don't like people *suggesting* how you do stuff, perhaps you should unfollow or mute. ...unless, of course, that seems like a bad solution.
you: Isn't it what I just said?
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It sounds like you're agreeing that unfollowing/muting isn't a good solution for dealing with people whose behavior you find problematic -- but if that's not the case, then please clarify your position.
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Because I can choose by myself whether to engage or not in a political discussion.
I also know that there are children out there in this federated space, and that's why I don't shitpost.
If people like to share gore, they probably want to do it responsibly, on specific domains that don't federate with every other instance. Having CW won't change anything to their posting, will it? Are you gonna spoon-feed them your ethics?