@jfhbrook Regarding the CW thing, I can't find the toot I wanted to link so I'll try my best to summarize it myself instead, though it'll probably be a bit blunter because I'm pretty exhausted after the past week+.

Basically, this space was built by vulnerable folks on a foundation of consent (ie. not as a Twitter replacement), and that is what CWs are about - it's a way to give other folks control over when and on what terms they interact with content that may be distressing, exhausting, or otherwise unpleasant to them.

They're important even if people don't directly follow you because your toots will also end up on the federated/local timelines, in hashtag searches, and so on. Likewise, many people won't boost toots that don't use appropriate CWs, because it will push them in people's faces who might not want to deal with them right then.

I realize that this is different than you might be used to from other platforms, but there's a good reason why those conventions exist here, and the way people actually interact with them is very different from what newcomers often assume (eg. it doesn't "reduce engagement").

Bottom line: please do use them generously, it's part of what makes fedi so nice. Nobody's expecting you to use them perfectly, of course, but it *is* generally expected that you try your best.

This article explains more about the background behind it and other practices on fedi, and what things are currently like from the perspective of folks (me included) who were here before the Twitter influx: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/