Notices by Cathy Gellis (cathygellis@mastodon.cloud)

@neil @tiffanycli By what metric?

@neil @tiffanycli As a reader, I do feel deterred. I follow tons of people and rarely have the time to expand. For your stuff, I might be inclined more so than others, but it's really not often possible.

@mmasnick @neil @tiffanycli I don't want to render all CWs useless. They are good for spoilers or particularly upsetting content, just I don't think for anything else remotely consistent with the output I followed the person for.

@neil @tiffanycli @mmasnick Can't you just use a filter? Because the CWs obstruct my consumption of the content, and I might want it.

@neil @tiffanycli @mmasnick Because then I get to enjoy no value from them at all.

I'd value them for spoilers and explicit content. But I don't get to if I have to expand everything automatically just to be able to consume anything close to the amount of content I desire.

@neil @tiffanycli @mmasnick They literally are content warnings, and intended to serve as an obstructive barrier to the actual content. I just think if they are used as essentially subject lines they obstruct too many people from too much content.

Better to design the UI to have subject lines appear in bold so people can quickly scroll past items they aren't interested in without creating an actual obstruction for everyone.

@mmasnick @neil @tiffanycli That's the part I disagree with - I don't think people can use them in different ways. It's all or nothing, with a practice that entirely favors those who want them at the expense of those who don't.

@mmasnick @neil @tiffanycli CWs never existed, and certainly not like this.

What Twitter always needed was better user control over their own reading experience. This norm cuts the other way. It's regressive.