@tastytentacles @bgcarlisle

No tusking!

That's the only rule I've learned.

@JordiGH
Tusking 0_0

@tastytentacles It means to provoke arguments for no reason, to be starting fights!

Going wooly is when something gets wildly popular.

And an extinction event is when an instances completely dies.

@JordiGH
I love everything about that terminology.

@tastytentacles @bgcarlisle

I've seen some toots going around listing things, but I'd love a link I could pin to my instance info for new-to-masto users.

@eleanor @tastytentacles @bgcarlisle

I think @noelle made a thing?

@jakobpunkt @bgcarlisle @tastytentacles @eleanor I hadn't included etiquette before, but I've added a section now: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969#whats-the-generally-accepted-mastodon-etiquette

@noelle
That is seriously helpful, thank you.

@noelle Thank you so much! If you don't mind, I'm going to link it from my instance so that the newbies can see :) that's a wonderful FAQ!

@stripey It's the mystery-meat aspect

Others don't know where I'm sending them just by reading the URL

And even if I've clicked it, I don't know what info is being logged about me by 3rd parties along the way

@bgcarlisle that makes sense. thanks for educating me!

@bgcarlisle @stripey Also, we have lots of room here for long urls. I haven't had a problem putting full urls along with my toots.

@bgcarlisle @stripey guilty of that myself, thanks. I'll try not to use URL shorteners in the future!

@mareklach I don't think it's just preference for CW's. We should be trying our best to anticipate what sort of content should be tagged so that *other people you may not even know* can decide if they want to engage with it

If you're not willing to make a good-faith effort to do that, you'll just be bringing the toxic outrage-culture here

So sure, you could do it, but my point was that I'm not gonna boost your stuff (and you'll probably get muted a lot too!)

@bgcarlisle I get it. But I think intention is always context department and subjective. For example I don't consider tooting about #Privacy, #Stallman, #Assange, or #Socialism toxic, so I don't CW it not because of my insensitivity, but because I personally don't consider CWs aesthetically pretty.

But I do get that having a rant, or an argument should go under a CW. I just don't think it should be overused too much :-)

@mareklach We'll have to agree to disagree!

@bgcarlisle Sure :-)

@mareklach @bgcarlisle agree. Sometimes using a CW might help have better toots, others are just a hell to follow the conversation. It's clicking twice so you get what are people talking about and tires me.

I think it should be used more like a TL;DR or a spoiler alert than anything else IMO.

It's all corrupted and creates the impression of being impossible to put corrupted politicians out of power. It gives the feeling of impotence and throwing away any chance of a better future for us to fight for. #politics

@mareklach @bgcarlisle (well, that with the hagstag before the CW).

@mareklach @bgcarlisle on the one hand, yes you’re welcome to do whatever you want and so long as it doesnt break your instances rules no one will stop you

On the other hand, I & a lot of other people dont like seeing untagged politics on our feed so doing that will get you (general you) a mute and then we cant see all the interesting non political stuff you’re posting which is kind of sad considering it takes like, three seconds of effort

@mareklach @bgcarlisle and new users should least be made aware of that fact which is why talking about preferences is good instead of just leaving all this shit unspoken you know?

@greyduck @bgcarlisle I use Mastalab on Android which does allow adding it but as far as I can tell doesn't yet have a way to actually view it once posted, which is frustrating. Updates are pretty frequent though, I should probably put in a request or something.

@greyduck @bgcarlisle I second @christy 's comment: Mastolab allows setting alt-text, but not viewing (but I did confirm with the web app that it does work).

@thelibrarian @christy @bgcarlisle Thank you, I will definitely check that out!

@greyduck @bgcarlisle not sure which os you’re on (theres more android apps than iphone atm) but Amaroq lets you add image descriptions

Amaroq currently also has a bug thats preventing a small percentage of users from uploading images at all though so uh, possibly wait till the next update when thats fixed

@supercheetah "Content warning"

There's a button at the bottom of the editor on the web app that allows you to add them to any post

@bgcarlisle Ah, okay, thanks!

@yax "Content warning"

There's a button at the bottom of the editor on the web app that allows you to add them to any post

@bgcarlisle so the idea is politics are kind of something a lot of folks don't want to be bombarded with so use the spoiler feature?

@yax Politics, lewd stuff, violence mentions, negativity, rants, links to Facebook or Twitter—basically, you should try to make a good-faith effort to CW anything where another person might want to decide if they want to engage with it

It's considered polite here

You can choose not to, of course, but it'll come across as rude, and you probably won't get much interaction with your stuff, and will likely be muted by a lot of people

@Reginald_Konga CW's aren't just for offensive content

It's for anything where another person might want to decide for themselves if they want to engage with it

And it's very easy to imagine thinking, "You know, I just don't want to think about people's Very Important Opinions on Masto today" and let this thread pass, and a CW gives them that option

@bgcarlisle That's fair, I guess.

@zenwoods @bgcarlisle welcome to mastodon! Let me know if you’ve got questions, or try the tag #needhelp :) looks like you’ve already made an introductions post so you’re well on your way to being a proper mastodonian yourself