Seriously, if Mastodon would just rename 'CW' to 'Subject' or 'Subject/CW', it would alleviate so many hassles and conflicts while helping folks adjust to Mastodon norms.

As an Admin of a Topic Based community instance, in the years since the Twitter takeover, the biggest challenge our moderation team has faced has been to get dudes (yes, it's almost always dudes), to add CWs to certain topics.

Just calling it 'Subject' would have helped in maybe 50% of conflicts over our asking for CWs.

But in the end, the whole point is to be thoughtful of others, and making it easier for others to sort through their timelines and help them decide what they want to read now and maybe read later, or just filter out.

We are all living through...ummm...a lot. Right now.

We all need to conserve energy and carefully choose how we spend it.

When we use CW's, we help others to manage what they read/see. We help them maintain energy for when they might need it. To maintain hope and resistance.

We also have hashtags, which are integral to Mastodon!

Using hashtags in your posts not only helps folks finds you and your posts, but they also help others filter out topics they want to avoid.

So, do use hashtags in your unlisted/quietpublic posts. So, your followers who love your art, but don't want to see food? Use a hashtag like 'food' so that they can see all of your posts except for your food posts.

#visSocialTips

I guess the whole point of this thread is to communicate how using built-in tools of Mastodon will help everyone sift through the crapti-fasctist-flood that is intended to overwhelm us all.

Use CWs as 'headlines' or 'subjects'. Use hashtags that will allow us all to limit the flood when we need to rest and rebuild, before coming back again.

#visSocialTips