CW meta & question
@ljwrites disclaimer: i haven’t commented on the most recent round of ‘what should we CW meta’ this is just a general preference of mine
I prefer CW’s because my goal is ‘make sure I’m in the right mindset before reading’ and not ‘never see this ever’ — if i could use filters to auto-CW posts with whatever word(s) I’m filtering that would be great but alas it is not a feature
CW meta & question
@Satsuma whoa that would be an awesome feature! Yeah that's an understandable preference and I can understand it.
CW meta & question
@ljwrites I can’t claim credit — it’s the way mutes used to work back when I was on tumblr (and muting via xkit, there was no native interface at the time)
But it was incredibly useful tbh, in the way that I generally do not find mastodon’s mute system to be
CW meta & question
@Satsuma yeah maybe there's a feature request somewhere, since this is already a known function from other platforms. Unfortunately I don't think we can expect Gargron to move on it. Maybe in one of the forks, hmm.
CW meta & question
@ljwrites yeah I’ve pretty much given up on mainstream mastodev, but maybe the folks working on glitch or hometown would be interested
CW meta & question
@ljwrites additionally, people tend to be more consistent in their CW’s, if someone makes a post misspelling Trumps name for comedic effect (something people did frequently during his presidency) it would slip past everyones filters, while an equivalent cw-ed post would probably be warned with his actual name, or uspol and therefore more effectively filterable