jumped on bluesky a month or so back and so far it's been fine, but like seeing the discourse around fediverse on there like "every 2nd post is over-cw'd to hell" is like

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a reply to a post about some corpo-social-network where people complain about fedis CW system 

@dogo lol

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@nilsding jyrki lmao at ur cw

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@dogo seriously though, i think CWs as we have them are great.

obviously for lewd stuff to not have some extra large vegetables show up immediately as they get posted, but also for certain topics i might not want to read about in the moment (e.g. US politics). I can just scroll by or open these posts depending on how i feel.
and if you really want to, you can let your mastodon client always expand CW'd posts, so ...

@nilsding true, yeah. i've also just like not seen ppl use them that overly weirdly thats the main thing

@dogo i think over time people get a feeling for what should be under a CW and what not tbh

@nilsding @dogo technically the ActivityPub field is "summary" but Gagron decided to call it CW which like...is technically a summary but not all summary are CW? X3 I use it like it's both. Sometimes I have a 2K char post and wanna fold the rambling hehe

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@KayOhtie @nilsding @dogo it was called CW long before the ActivityPub spec

@noiob @nilsding @dogo I forgot masto predated using AP, derp, literal airhead makes for figurative one sometimes :kay_blush:

I do feel like the term is kind of dated given the increasing number of AP services though, but I can't think of a good one that kinda captures both concepts cause "summary" kinda undersells it (and feels unnecessary especially with stock masto being 500 char) outside of it somehow being context based on the sensitive toggle. Derp.

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