Okay so maybe there's some technical point I'm missing here, but are CWs required for filtering? If someone were to filter the words "Ukraine," "war," and maybe "Russia" and "Putin" if they want to go farther, wouldn't that filter pretty much 99% of posts about the war? And isn't that even more effective than CWs in a way, since filtered posts can be disappeared altogether unlike CWs without filters which are still a visible reminder of what's going on?

I support anyone's right to curate their content and to consent to see potentially upsetting things. What I don't get is the idea that it's imperative for other people, even people directly affected by the war, to use CWs for specific content focused on, as far as I can tell, a specific and narrow set of keywords that can be easily filtered.

@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

@Satsuma whoa that would be an awesome feature! Yeah that's an understandable preference and I can understand it.

@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