Edit: Don’t just downvote and run away, make your liberalism known. If you have an issue with either of these, please let them be known in the comments. C'mon, let's duke it out. :)

For the libs shouting "but muh anonymity", you should have zero issue using the "any pronoun" tag as you will be addressed with any pronouns regardless of whether or not you have it set. The point of having them sitewide is for everyone to use them to normalize explicitly stating one's pronouns as a means of not forcing trans people to request to be addressed with basic respect. The amount of pushback on a meaningful step toward trans inclusivity in this community is pretty fucking disheartening, not gonna lie.

Folks seem to be using the NSFW tag for the spoiler effect on memes, and while it's a funny use of it, it's causing the intended use of the NSFW tag to lose its value. This isn't r/WatchPeopleDie. Personally, I was exposed to that sort of content at a younger age and am desensitized to it now, but not everyone is like me in that regard and I'm probably more fucked up than I like to think for having been as exposed to it as I was. We currently don't have another way of tagging content, so please be considerate and put "[NSFL]" or content warnings in the title so people know they'll be looking at some heavy shit. Not a lot to ask. Please do not start ironically putting "[NSFL]" or other content warnings in the post title. You're more creative than that, I promise.

      • ElectricMonk [she/her,undecided]
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        4 years ago

        They have content warnings that can have any text, these are used for everything from NSFW, NSFL, spoilers, joke punchlines and hiding long posts not everyone is interested in. IIRC they were added by popular demand of the large mastodon lgbt community among others and its really became a part of the culture, some instances/circles CW a broader range of topics than others (like selfies or politics) and that’s ok. White a few users say what they CW or request what posts should be CWed when tagging them.

        Ultimately it’s quite a leap from what other sites sites and has an impact on the posting culture, wether it’s right for Lemmy or ChapoChat I don’t know.

        Personally I think it’s a good idea to be aware of how the rest of the fediverse works to be able to decide where compatibility is desired. (unless that’s being left to the upstream devs) Because a lot of features people are asking for, like better NSFW, polls, and other features that might be wanted in the future like image descriptions etc already exist on the fediverse in some form.