And, right on cue, someone complains about my "political" posts not having a content warning.
Let me explain: fuck you.
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@mattblaze Matt, that's not even a person. Your good at this. Like really effing good at being on the Fediverse. Your being gooned by bots for your being pretty much exactly what decent humans want to follow and see on a daily basis.
I'm saying this because it's your negative emotional response they are seeking. They don't have to destroy us all, they just have to make it worse on the best among us. That's you. Give them nothing. Keep being awesome.
@mattblaze at some point, any content will hurt someone... 🤷 No one can properly cw stuff, it's too culture dependant. I don't understand why they don't see this. My cw is not your cw. I guess cw are applied based on some general idea if what might hurt people. I have my reader set to show everything...
This is a long and winding thread, and Matt Blaze certainly does not need further defending, he expresses himself very clearly. Just a few additional thoughts:
1) The rules of the instance are the rules. They are the only rules.
2) Jumping in with a reply to tell someone how to use Mastodon is in itself discourteous, a form of thread jacking. Obviously, one is free to do it (see 1 above), but don't be surprised if it is not taken well, and may get you blocked.
“Shut up he explained.”
@mattblaze if your going to rant about someone rading wanting wanting content warnings on political topics
then let ME explain: fuck you
@Li Please explain why you believe you have the right to expect strangers to censor their expression to conform to your personal preferences and interests. Alternatively, please explain how anything I have posted has harmed you.
@mattblaze @Li There are people who I know have been subjected to "mansplaining" and consequently reply rather abruptly to replies that I would interpret as complimentary ... in these cases, I try to phrase my replies to avoid any appearance of mansplaining (especially as I have less expertise, but not zero expertise, and different experiences with the topic), although I have no idea how successful I am.
But these are replies... in a post, I couldn't possibly avoid upsetting some people who happen to read my musings.
@mattblaze please explain why you think your tantrum over adding a cw is "censorship" and trumps other peoples ability to decide for themselves what they want to see or not;
also its harmful because 1- it overrides my consent and insists i must see your bullshit, but 2- do you even know what a fucking trigger is?? (obviously not or you wouldnt post shit like this-)
let me tell you, i have cPTSD, certain topics cause me to completely fucking break apart sometimes for the entire day, during this time, i am unable to do like anything, this is very much harmful to me,
this has happened from fedi, even, in posts, talking about politics; and other topics, especially if those topics are just (laundering harm done through the state- like e.g politics often is-)
I started this and didn't expect to come down on your side, but I think you're in the right here. I CW us pol and trumpic stuff 'cuz I know people just filter that. I'm sure I miss a few--I tend to be comfortable with ideas and horrible things that most people aren't inured to. I'm not perfect, but I agree with the principle. Thanks. Wasn't sure how I felt about this until you two explicated it.
@mattblaze @Li I don't understand this hyper-aggressive shaming when someone doesn't use a CW for everything you may not want to see in your feed. Like, you can block Matt and never see his posts, right? That's in your control, use it.
@mattblaze I find content warnings triggering. What am I supposed to do? 😉
@mattblaze I haven't had rhe energy to "Internet" for awhile now, but nice to know the climate hasn't changed any.
@mattblaze Although I'm with you on the CW Thing - one may filter out political terms oneself - you are becoming more and more rude lately (or always were?) and somewhat whiny/touchy about these things. My consequence? I won't block or mute you, but unfollow. This is not the kind of behaviour I expect from people on this network, even less so from someone who is a scientist/researcher.
@Gilgamesch You totally remind me of some random blathering about "evolutionary economics" on BSky when you say this. And when you do say this, you remind me of the manifest moral cowardice we see almost everywhere today, quite unlike the Atomic Scientists of Chicago in 1945 who were mostly of The Greatest Generation. @mattblaze @cstross @kimcrawley @davidgerard
@bms48 @mattblaze @cstross
Oh I can be incredible rude, when it's appropriate.
And maybe I'm not aware of the initial post, that warrants such behaviour, but wishing for CW on political matters is hardly the same as e.g. propagating a fascist world view. (Burn them on a stake!) Everything is political. Just ignore the special snowflakes without insulting anyone is all I'm saying. (See what I did there? 😜)
As for evolutionary economics, well... I don't know what that is and probably don't care.
@Gilgamesch @bms48 @cstross I’m curious. What did I ever do or say to make you believe I’d be even slightly interested in your opinion on what I should and shouldn’t post, random stranger? I realize you think my language is beneath my station, but I will, I assure you, find a way to live with your disapproval.
@Gilgamesch Do whatever you want. I really don’t give a shit if you think I’m too rude to trolls. Sounds like a you problem.
@mattblaze @Gilgamesch Being rude to trolls in front of an audience is one of the few perks of being slightly famous on social media.
@cstross @mattblaze @Gilgamesch now there’s a level of fame that feels worth aspiring too.
@cstross @Gilgamesch Not famous enough to get a good table at a restaurant when it’s fully booked, but famous enough to be able to speak my mind as I see fit, is good enough for me.
@mattblaze mate, I vote for progressive candidates, donate big chunks of my money to progressive causes. I recycle. I do everything I fucking can to do things right.
I have no more energy left to get outraged at problems on the other side of the world I can do nothing to help. I am burned out.
So if you or anyone else posts unfilterable politics about causes I can't do a damn thing about other than get upset about, you go on the naughty list.
And I get this shit bubble up in the trending page?
In conclusion: fuck you too, buddy!
stumbling upon new topics is a perfectly normal social media function
in fact most people want that. it's called discovery
we can't scope a fix to your problem
some people have wide interests, some have narrow interests
in short: there's no tech or policy fix here
because there's no problem to fix
if something shows up you don't like, ignore it
or block it
or, if you're a self-centered conceited controlling asshole, you tell other people how to behave
🖕
@Hyperlynx You might not have learned about Mastodon’s new policy where you’re no longer required to follow me or read my posts. In fact, if they really bother you, you can even mute or block my account.
So I no longer feel the least bit obliged to cater my posts to the whims of every censorious asshole on the planet who wants to control what I write about.
Some people on here don't read their own home timeline -- the stream where content from people and tags they follow appears.
Instead, they read the Everything or Fediverse timeline, which has literally everything that arrived at their home server.
That pushes the responsibility for curation onto authors -- "Is this something that would bother anyone?"
It's an unfair structure and it should be up to the reader to curate their home feed instead.
@evan yeah, making my posts maximally benign in accord with an array of unwritten and contradictory rules I never agreed to follow, interpreted by people I’ve never met, is not a game I’m interested in playing.
@mattblaze @Hyperlynx And we can make our own CWs by creating Mutes on words and terms, with completely invisible if we really want to keep out timelines clear.
@mattblaze I'll second that explanation. 🙄🤦♀️
@mattblaze
Back around 2015, my brother complained about stuff I was posting on Facebook and would i please stop it. I told him "my page, my posts." He was free to unfollow or block, whatever he chose.
