Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@moonspider a couple things:

traditional content warnings aren’t about offensiveness, but the fact that a topic might be upsetting for some people. Sometimes a topic is both (eg. homophobia) but bugs and medical needles are two frequently warned for things where i think it is fairly clear the warning is not any kind of moral/cultural judgement or indication of offensiveness

fedi in particular—especially pre-Musk buying twitter fedi—has a culture of using CWs for an even wider variety of things from including collapsing long posts or threads, spoiler warnings for shows, hiding the punchline of a joke, etc. You might argue this means the feature should be renamed but regardless the fact is there is very little association between using a CW and indicating something is distasteful or offensive

As for selfies in particular, its a curtesy towards people who are startled by unexpected eye contact, which is why often the CWs in question are phrases like “selfie, eye contact” or “selfie but no ec”

@Lady babe the post is like 85% rec communities which have never been intended to be digital repositories

@Lady hence the no Ao3 or commercial sites bit, so far the rest of my neighbors have been fine or i don’t even know who they are

i’m not saying people shouldn’t think about where they put their stuff, but right now i dont think anyone even knows what the options are so i’d rather have a full list first and then filter

@Lady entropy is a part of life

@Lady i will currently take ‘not Ao3 or commercial’ which is a bit broader than that, yeah

like we’re just going for a basic ‘link diversity is good’ precept

@Lady good for self hosting but i’m not sure it applies to a dreamwidth community or a larger single fandom archive

@Lady lol

@pagrus yeah its just really terrible phrasing (probably on purpose for clickbait reasons)

@pagrus thank you for CWing this simulated death, the first time someone posted a story about this the link preview cut off the headline after killed and before simulation and i thought for second some poor kid had actually died

also if anyone has suggestions for an organizational tagname for these kinds of links i’d love to start using one to share any independent archives / rec communities / etc i stumble across

(something positive, rather than just #NotAo3 — even if past precedent tells me we will all have to spend all our time talking about why we’re not including Ao3 regardless lol)

whelp i already forgot at least on comm, guess that’s what comments are for

posting, sharing, and saving fic outside of Ao3: https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/26683.html

Melannen is backing up all of their fanfic from Ao3 to neocities and thinks you should too: https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/534629.html?