@noracodes really it’s the assumption that people would only engage in a social behaviour because they were forced to which irks me

like i understand that CW can be a confusing term and that it may not line up with what people actually see it being used for, and i’m not going to fault anyone for that, but like… assuming that it was a behaviour forced by above instead of a natural emergent community practice… just demonstrates a lack of willingness to see mastodon users as a community instead of a collection of random individuals, or a lack of understanding about how online communities actually work (using things in ways Other Than Their Intended Purpose is like, a pretty common and established thing for online communities to do)