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Filtered word: nsfw
Perhaps this is controversial, but for me, if someone posts things I don't want to see I don't follow them or I mute/block them. Anyone can use filters to customize their feed. I actually disable content warnings so I see what people post without having to click show on everything. Once someone posts porn for example, I block them because that is not my thing. I say post how you want to post - to me the CW is for nsfw items - politics is fine as are most topics. Hate speech is not but I don't see very much of that. Every user and every admin has the power to moderate the user experience in the Fediverse.
Hypolite Petovan
•The #Fediverse has a rather low discoverability which is both a boon and a curse, but it still has some. People posting problematic content may not reach you once you mute/block them, but by default it will land in the local timeline of their instance, and in the global timeline of every remote instance they are interacting with. So even if it can't harm you anymore, it can still harm other people who didn't ask for it either.
Thankfully #Friendica has admin controls for this where accounts can be silenced on the local and/or global community pages, but moderators still need to be aware of the potentially offended content.
KateMoss1
•2 if you disagree with a person or a group then WHY THE FUCK, may I ask, would you not talk with them? Are you not self-isolating yourself from controversial opinions in your little echo-chamber?
Hypolite Petovan
•You better straighten the record if you want me to engage any more with you.
KateMoss1
•Yes, you're right. I was changing the subject, which is not.. productive, I expected you to block me (and using terms was just on principle, not in order to provoke you) so didn't write a high-quality comment. My comment was low quality, you're right.
>if I understand them at all.
what's not to understand? I think that avoiding people with opinions vastly different from yours is bad. makes you more ignorant/ "close-minded". Most importantly, no my comment didn't have anything with your reply or the original thread, so no need to reply.
Hypolite Petovan
•First of all, we weren't meant to all talk to each other all the time. Massively public social media platforms like Twitter have brought a terrible curse, an online panopticon where everybody can see everybody else, and in turn being seen by everybody else, and predictably it hasn't brought the best out of people. In this kind of space, we're almost only performing a social character, a witty, detached, provocative false self that is popular only in this particular unnatural context.
Second of all, words do in fact hurt, and online trolls know this very well. Avoiding people with opinions vastly different from yours online has become self-care because people who feed on provoking reactions from strangers have weaponized completely open social media for their own selfish interests.
Additionally, having any kind of leftist po... show more
First of all, we weren't meant to all talk to each other all the time. Massively public social media platforms like Twitter have brought a terrible curse, an online panopticon where everybody can see everybody else, and in turn being seen by everybody else, and predictably it hasn't brought the best out of people. In this kind of space, we're almost only performing a social character, a witty, detached, provocative false self that is popular only in this particular unnatural context.
Second of all, words do in fact hurt, and online trolls know this very well. Avoiding people with opinions vastly different from yours online has become self-care because people who feed on provoking reactions from strangers have weaponized completely open social media for their own selfish interests.
Additionally, having any kind of leftist political leaning will constantly expose you to opinions vastly different from yours because most governments and media outlets carry centrist/rightist opinions these days, so curating your online social media doesn't shield you much, but it still does, so it's valuable for one own's mental health.
Lastly, if you aren't personally affected by opinions vastly different from yours, it's all good, but it's very much a rare privilege and it doesn't give you any right to tell other people how to manage their own social media experience. Like I said initially, we weren't supposed to all get along with each other and looking for like-minded people to hang around is much older than the Internet and it makes sense to reproduce the same behavior online.
KateMoss1
•"Additionally, having any kind of leftist political leaning will constantly expose you to opinions vastly different from yours because most governments and media outlets carry centrist/rightist opinions these days,"
Funny, and weird. Usually the right-wingers say exactly the same/opposite thing, usually phrased as "it's impossible to have a right wing echo chamber, because the media is left-leaning".
I have no opinions, but I prefer to meet open-minded people that are not in "echo chambers", but that's my... "privilege" I guess.
Other than the quoted paragraph your comment is not weird. I'll re-read it later, it's well written.
Hypolite Petovan
•From my experience, right-wingers complaining about the media landscape are either maximalists (there should be only right-wing media and anything vaguely centrist is already too much concession) or they are deploring the mainstream media isn’t entertaining their pet conspiracy theory.
But, at least in France, most media outlets are now controlled by a shrinking number of rich people who’s been actively steering their editorial lines away from any criticism of capitalism or economic inequality.
Furthermore, a couple of terrorist attacks (the Charlie Hebdo attack and the Bataclan massacre) has made a few outlets veer into crass islamophobia/xenophobia.
There are some grassroots leftist media outlets left but they’re few and far between.