hey just as a reminder, if you’re posting or boosting something that is meant to create strong negative emotions in the reader, please be sure to give it a CW that gives folks a good idea of what they’re going to be seeing

by “strong negative emotions” I’m talking about outrage, fear, a sense of vulnerability or danger, empathy for others’ suffering, a sense of injustice or unfairness, or any other emotion one might expect to feel about Current Events

IMO it doesn’t matter what the post is about (it could be about drama in some obscure hobby, or something happening on GitHub, or anything else) it’s about the emotions that that post is meant to create. that’s an important thing for folks to be able to opt into or out of explicitly

adding CWs for this kind of post will help everyone have a much more comfortable Fedi browsing experience

@kasdeya ive never thought about this but i agree for sure. not even so much bc of comfortable browsing but bc outrage generally tends to make people dumber. especially me

@kasdeya refusal to engage with a full range of emotion is dangerous but it should be on one’s own terms, and the way people do anger on the internet is almost always bad

@lizzie there is a really good CGP Grey video about how anger makes folks dumber and can lead to spirals of outrage online. I’d definitely recommend giving it a watch if anyone is interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc

@kasdeya oh i remember seeing that!

@hypebot @kasdeya Thank you for phrasing it better than I did the other day.

@kasdeya I have so many filters in place to keep my sanity but then some idiot decides to post a screenshot from the bird page without alt text and it's all for nothing again. I'm so frustrated at these, often huge, accounts. Fuck you gaining political capital out of my sanity.

@kasdeya what's a "CW?"

@hojalot couldn't find out what she means by CW, but googling lots of abbreviations led me to an intriguing novel series "Cat Warriors". I recommend every cat lover pay some attention to it. Thanks @kasdeya !

@kasdeya

Fuck, everyone's become so tender. Aren't you afraid to go outside?