I know this is a sensitive topic, but if Mastodon wants to grow, it’s going to have change it’s culture as much as it expects folks to change for it. Insisting on #contentwarnings for things like #news and #politics will likely lead to fracturing or will eventually hamper adoption. Now, maybe that’s a desirable outcome, but a lot of folks are looking for that that twitter replacement and coming from a place where their metier is politics or current events.
I’m planning to set-up an instance for humanitarian response researchers, but if the expectation is that users CW everything or it ends up defederated complicated matters quiet a bit, and makes me question whether this tool is the right one for the job.
A big part of why this matters is that it will hamper discovery. If discovery didn’t matter, a mailing list would suffice, but the purpose of a platform is to socialize your work, gain input from interested folk, and let new participants join as they organically discover things. If they can’t find something because they join a bigger instance and that instance has blocked ours, then we might as well have just been a mailing list.
@scarnecchia This is very easily solved by not doing the thing that gets you instance-blocked.
