Y’all consider #people to be too #sensitive nowadays but have you ever considered that maybe the things #you#say aren’t as light hearted as you #think and that you #sound like a fucking #dickhead?
Yes, I know about hashtags. I use them. albeit sparingly, as I think is appropriate, without making my posts #look#like#Ransom#notes. For example, I tag my photos with "#photography". What I won't do is label my "boring" posts, because I like to think that every one of them has the potential to be boring to someone.
Jebus, you over-sensitive snowflakes. If you don't like what someone posts, you have options. In ascending order:
Scroll past.
Unfollow.
Mute.
Block.
I happen to enjoy reading what Mr. Blaze posts; it's informative and interesting. On the other hand, I find pictures of other peoples' lunches incredibly boring, but I don't go asking them to stop posting or to put content-warnings or "boring" hashtags on them.
My face when I spend minutes upon minutes trying to take good portrait pictures of @Juno Rowland and myself to show our cool outfits...
...even making sure they won't lead to another 10,000+-character #ImageDescription by having next to nothing around and behind us...
...only to remember I can't even post them because there's absolutely no way for me to conceal them from sensitive people on #Mastodon who require an #EyeContact #ContentWarning.
Some autistic people get triggered pretty heavily if someone in a picture looks at them. This "someone" can be a lot: an actual human being, an anthropomorphic animal, an actual animal, a robot, whatever. Or a picture thereof in the picture.
Some are only triggered by someone looking directly at the camera. Some are triggered by someone looking vaguely into their direction. Some are triggered as soon as even only a bit of face or eye is visible. And sometimes, even "visible" becomes a stretch when an autistic person understands from the context that a sub-pixel-size blotch has to be a face and is triggered by it.
On Mastodon, you can put a content warning "CW: eye contact" or "CW: ec" into the content warning field which is the same as the summary field on (streams). Also, on Mastodon, if there's anything in that field, pictures attached to native Mastodon toots are automatically flagged sensitive and blanked out.
Unfortunately, Mastodon does not do that just as automatically with pictures coming in embedded into Friendica, Hubzilla or (streams) posts. They remain in plain sight. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) hide images along with the post in a summary. Mastodon, however, only hides the post under a summary-gone-content warning, but not the pictures.
On Friendica, Hubzilla and all (streams) versions up until 23.09.xx, there is no way to hide these pictures from Mastodon users at all. You can only post them in plain sight for all Mastodon users or not at all unless you have another way of avoiding them getting onto Mastodon.
Starting with (streams) 23.10.xx, you can flag pictures as sensitive on (streams) itself in a way that Mastodon understands: You add either the hashtag #nsfw (only use this if what you've posted is actually not safe for work) or the hashtag #sensitive. (streams) automatically flags all images embedded into the post as sensitive, and Mastodon blanks them out.
…#MollyMichael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from #Trump that were written on the back of notecards, & she later recognized those notecards as #sensitive#WhiteHouse materials -- w/visible #classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls w/ #foreign leaders or other #international-related matters.
"I believe in aristocracy, though - if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations & classes, & all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos." #sensitive
E.M. Forster
In the past I've found #problems in #software, problems with #websites, with bureaucratic processes, some of which were significant, but they all pale in comparison to this one.
So now I'm being told that a few people on a instance with 1000s of users who complain that you don't use CW or alt-text the way they want can result in your being blocked for the entire instance, even when you've never received any notification of this.
Sort of like how you'd get arrested in fascist countries and never told why. Kafka would recognize this for sure.
I would assert that this makes #Mastodon even more of a toy than I thought it was, and utterly unreliable for much beyond trading photos of kitties. Leela the Siamese Snowshoe approves of kitty photos of course, but beyond that anyone depending on #Mastodon might charitably be called "misguided" at best, if my understanding of the situation is correct.
And I feel that the public needs to understand that they're buying into this sort of nonsense if they're looking at #Mastodon as an alternative to Elon's #Twitter hellscape.
I would hope that this would shake out naturally. The over-sensitive block off any instance that isn't run to their tightly-wound standards. Users of those instances who want a more open experience sign up with, or move to, other instances...
The problem, of course, is the people who are on, or who sign up with, the uptight instances and don't know there's anything different out there.