You know what
If we didn't already have them, I bet website boy would never implement CWs today
@coriander the only reason he did was because everyone was ROT13ing their posts and that was "bad for onboarding"
@coriander like he didn't WANT to but he didn't want
lewd//unun tbaan vafreg fbzr fjvgpurf va zl xrlobneq vs lbh xabj jung v zrna
on the public TL either LOL
@Lady @coriander i snrked at the encoded text and then went ”wait i actually don't know what you mean” lmao
@aescling @coriander there was a time when this was a very good joke https://mastodon.social/@marrus_sh/671873
@Lady @coriander i’m only more confused
@Lady @coriander oh i know that, i just didn't understand the original joke or the first of the posts you linked
@aescling @coriander before mastodon had CWs, ROT13 was how people hid sensitive content, especially lewds
so the implication of having a ROT13 username would be that somebody was typing a toot to your normal username but ROT13'd it because it was a lewd post
the keyboard stuff was just because coriander was looking at keyboard maintenance things earlier today and "switch" is a funny polysemous word
@aescling @coriander i think you're overthink it lmao
@Lady @coriander i still don’t understand what putting my switches 😏 in a keyboard would mean though lol