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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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What you hear is what you want to hear. My position is: "I don't want anyone telling me how to use a functionality or not."
Meaning: I don't want readers complaining that I should use CW or not to satisfy their inability to deal with stuff I would post.
That's because I won't shitpost for example. And yes, I unfollow people who shitpost, because I'm not interested in dealing with their shit.
Now if it were political, I wouldn't need CW...
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The problem is, you're doing the same thing you're saying we shouldn't do, just with a different topic.
You don't want people telling you how to use CWs.
We don't want you telling us what we can't talk about.
Do you see how this is a problem?
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In that case, nobody's telling you how to use CWs, either.
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What do you mean by "cannot"? If a community (e.g. the users of a particular instance) agree that CWs should be used a certain way, and the admins decide to put it in the CoC, then the readers and the writers (many of whom are the same people, of course) do both get a say in how CWs are used.
Many CoCs do in fact include guidelines for CW usage. This is not a new thing.
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@woozle @paulfree14 Yes, but you solve that on an instance's level, not at federation level. See our code of conduct at https://s10y.eu/ You can only solve CW at your own server, and even there you only enforce compliance by muting or banning people, not much different from what anyone would do for their own stream, is it?
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That's pretty much what we've been talking about, yeah.
If you were under the impression that I was advocating some kind of Mastodon-wide enforcement of CW standards, then I apologize for being unclear about that.
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@woozle @paulfree14
You are arguing that readers should have a say in how CW is used. I'm saying they cannot. The rest of your argument is simply that I'm not telling what I'm telling. This is silly.