We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here.
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We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
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We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
I always found CWs to be backwards. How the hell am I supposed to know what is going to set someone off? They should honestly be removed and let readers self-filter.
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We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
@scottjenson I don't have any data about the usefulness of Content Warnings but I can't think of a use case not already covered by filters.
I rely on filters for content I don't want to see, and I don't need CW to match it. Are there cases where CWs catch what filters don't?
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@scottjenson I don't have any data about the usefulness of Content Warnings but I can't think of a use case not already covered by filters.
I rely on filters for content I don't want to see, and I don't need CW to match it. Are there cases where CWs catch what filters don't?
@thibaultamartin I don't think it matters as many people never use CWs the "right way" so will never be caught properly.
Btw, I'm not saying we should never use CWs there could be some strong content that a server wants to always be me marked. But that's up to server admins to enforce not randos yelling at newcomers
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We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
Would like to suggest combining "tone policing" with how we can make it easier for new users to grasp how every instance can set their own "rules" for their users - often in a CoC and/or ToS.
But within limits, as otherwise risk getting defederated.
Some guidelines on making it easy for users to find someones home instance and the rules it has could also be good. Both for instance admins and users.
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I always found CWs to be backwards. How the hell am I supposed to know what is going to set someone off? They should honestly be removed and let readers self-filter.
@blainsmith @scottjenson I don't think it's such a problem, at least I haven't seen it be with the people I follow....
I guess it's a kind gesture to put CW if you know that some people don't want to see/can't see without panic, e.g. spiders.
I don't think such warnings are a bad thing in general. Things get bad if done excessively and we all may draw that line in different places. 🤷Then again I make use of filters a lot to block out posts about politics. I like that I can easily unto filters and read posts anyway.
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@thibaultamartin I don't think it matters as many people never use CWs the "right way" so will never be caught properly.
Btw, I'm not saying we should never use CWs there could be some strong content that a server wants to always be me marked. But that's up to server admins to enforce not randos yelling at newcomers
@scottjenson @thibaultamartin OTOH, filters don't work reliably either given how many people have carried over from The Other Places the bad habit of intentionally mistyping names to avoid algorithmic demotion/shadowbanning/etc.
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Would like to suggest combining "tone policing" with how we can make it easier for new users to grasp how every instance can set their own "rules" for their users - often in a CoC and/or ToS.
But within limits, as otherwise risk getting defederated.
Some guidelines on making it easy for users to find someones home instance and the rules it has could also be good. Both for instance admins and users.
@tsvenson @scottjenson the tone of the tone policing matters too. For example, a suggestion that using appropriate hashtags (to help filters) and/or CWs might actually increase reach since people who care about this will only boost properly tagged and/or CWed posts will elicit a different reaction than a shouting match to the tone of «CW YOUR POLITICS, ASSHOLE».
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We need to talk more about reducing "tone policing" here. I understand you want people to use content warnings, but guess what? They don't have to! If they don't do it, just unfollow them.
But please, don't harass them. That's what drove away our last big wave.
Do whatever you need to feel safe, but harassing people to your standards doesn't make THEM feel safe. Stop it.
@scottjenson I completely agree. I always try to make it clear to users of my forums that they shouldn't object to the way other users post.
Users can report any rule violations to us moderators either through the integrated reporting system or by direct message. If they don't receive a satisfactory response, they can mute or block that user. But they shouldn't harass other users, otherwise the social Fediverse will be under such pressure that only the troublemakers will remain. -
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@scottjenson I completely agree. I always try to make it clear to users of my forums that they shouldn't object to the way other users post.
Users can report any rule violations to us moderators either through the integrated reporting system or by direct message. If they don't receive a satisfactory response, they can mute or block that user. But they shouldn't harass other users, otherwise the social Fediverse will be under such pressure that only the troublemakers will remain.
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Hey folks,
If you have the opportunity, I would kindly suggest to move off of mastodon.social.
It's one of the biggest, if not still the biggest instance and has been showing problematic activity not just now, but over the years.
That means being blocked by that instance, or trying to block that instance results in losing contact with a lot of people.
Which happened to @fabio just recently for the second time by being blocked. And I don't think any other instance to speak of did that.
The NPO behind it is also registered in Germany.
- a country which has the "Staatsräson" since 2008 of "The security of Israel is unnegotiable", "Our unconditional solidarity with Israel has never been under question for me. My personal relationship with Israel is unconditionally good." (then chancellor Angela Merkel)
Of course not a word about the security of Palestine or Palestinians.
- The country where now the Chancellor echoed words and the sentiment of former Nazi head propagandist Goebbels, by talking of migrants as an issue for the city image, for which he does not apologize. He also does not admit to a genocide being committed by Israel, even when Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the UN and genocide experts have identified and declared it as such.
- A country where a recent study of hundreds of TV and Newspaper reports for 2025 has shown that 95% of criminal suspects they reported on were foreigners, even though they only make up 34.3% of the actual criminal suspects.
Germany is deeply racist and pro-Israel.
- There was a strong push, which I did not follow of how successful it was, of defining antisemitism to put under suspicion of it any criticism of Israel, and stopping public funding for organisations that do not adhere to that definition.
I think it's naive to think that all this does not also put pressure on an influential project of public opinion such as mastodon.social.
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/studie-groesste-taetergruppe-systematisch-verschwiegen/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsr%C3%A4son
https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/antisemitismus-2024/549358/israel-und-der-antisemitismus/
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/deutschland-israel-staatsraeson-100.html
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@mzll
Non ti montare la testa 😁😁
Penso che basta rallentare e cercare più a fondo e si incontra bella gente .
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If you're on a social media platform that's not on the Fediverse yet, TELL THEM.
