Philipp<p>I think I need to enact similar posting and boosting guidelines as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ibe.social/@theresmiling" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theresmiling</span></a></span>.(thanks for sharing them 🙂)</p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/postingGuidelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postingGuidelines</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/ContentWarnings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContentWarnings</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/03/social-media-use" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theresmiling.eu/blog/2025/03/s</span><span class="invisible">ocial-media-use</span></a></p>
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@damon It doesn't help that Mastodon itself is largely a bubble.
Some 70% of all Fediverse users are on Mastodon. But it seems like that within Mastodon itself, at least 95% of all posts originate from Mastodon. Maybe even more.
There are several reasons for this.
First of all, other projects don't federate with Mastodon that much.
Misskey is huge in East Asia, especially Japan. And Japanese Misskey users who hardly know English or not at all won't be interested in connecting with Western Mastodon users, so a large chunk of the second-biggest free project in the Fediverse is out of the equation.
Lemmy is the third-biggest, but Lemmy federates with Mastodon only barely so, also because Lemmy is all about discussion groups and enclosed conversations, both of which Mastodon simply doesn't support. Lemmy users can't follow Mastodon users because Lemmy users can't follow users, full stop. And Mastodon users have to wrap their minds around how to federate with Lemmy. It isn't as straight-forward as communication within Mastodon. And so they simply don't.
Other examples include Hubzilla and (streams) channels having ActivityPub off on purpose to keep ignorant and obnoxious Mastodon users out.
But this goes the other way as well. Mastodon can be outright hostile to non-Mastodon users. Why? Because they don't behave like what Mastodon users are used to from Mastodon and, by extent, partly also Twitter. And they have joined the Fediverse in expectation of something that's one big distributed but homogenous Twitter clone. Anything that deviates from that may be disturbing.
There are Mastodon users who, upon seeing a post with over 500 characters, and be it in the federated timeline, block the poster. This alone cuts into the reach of everything that isn't Mastodon. Not few wish for a switch with which they can permanently filter out all posts with over 500 characters.
Others may block everyone who uses text formatting. Either it simply goes on their nerves. Or they can't imagine that it's even possible to format text in the Fediverse because they can't do that on Mastodon, so they think it's all some Unicode trickery. And as this Unicode trickery is not accessible and inclusive because it irritates screen readers, they deem whoever uses text formatting ableist and therefore blockworthy.
Then there's the issue of content warnings. They must be provided the Mastodon way, or you risk being blocked. However, not everything out there provides a) the right text field with b) the right label on it. Non-Mastodon projects may still label the summary field a summary field instead of a CW field like Mastodon does.
Friendica, for example, has done away with that text field entirely and users BBcode tags instead. Hubzilla doesn't provide any means of adding a summary/a Mastodon CW to a reply. And both have had their own way of adding CWs since long before there was Mastodon which their own users consider vastly superior to Mastodon's way.
In general, boosts are very important on Mastodon. I'd say that most activity on Mastodon is boosts because they're so easy to do on a phone without a hardware keyboard. Your reach on Mastodon depends on boosts.
But if you don't play exactly along Mastodon's written and unwritten rules, and if you don't adhere to the "Fediquette" which is entirely defined by only Mastodon users and geared towards only Mastodon's features (or lack thereof), you're boosted far less.
If you post more than 500 characters at once, it takes a lot for your post to get boosted.
If you post an image without alt-text, the post will be boosted dramatically less because not exactly few Mastodon users refuse to boost image posts without alt-text. You may even be muted or blocked for not providing alt-text. But alt-text only is a thing on Mastodon, and hardly anyone provides it outside Mastodon.
In general, anything that deviates from the standards defined by vanilla Mastodon will cut into your visibility on Mastodon deeply.
CC: @Hiker
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Fediquette
Some 70% of all Fediverse users are on Mastodon. But it seems like that within Mastodon itself, at least 95% of all posts originate from Mastodon. Maybe even more.
There are several reasons for this.
First of all, other projects don't federate with Mastodon that much.
Misskey is huge in East Asia, especially Japan. And Japanese Misskey users who hardly know English or not at all won't be interested in connecting with Western Mastodon users, so a large chunk of the second-biggest free project in the Fediverse is out of the equation.
Lemmy is the third-biggest, but Lemmy federates with Mastodon only barely so, also because Lemmy is all about discussion groups and enclosed conversations, both of which Mastodon simply doesn't support. Lemmy users can't follow Mastodon users because Lemmy users can't follow users, full stop. And Mastodon users have to wrap their minds around how to federate with Lemmy. It isn't as straight-forward as communication within Mastodon. And so they simply don't.
Other examples include Hubzilla and (streams) channels having ActivityPub off on purpose to keep ignorant and obnoxious Mastodon users out.
But this goes the other way as well. Mastodon can be outright hostile to non-Mastodon users. Why? Because they don't behave like what Mastodon users are used to from Mastodon and, by extent, partly also Twitter. And they have joined the Fediverse in expectation of something that's one big distributed but homogenous Twitter clone. Anything that deviates from that may be disturbing.
There are Mastodon users who, upon seeing a post with over 500 characters, and be it in the federated timeline, block the poster. This alone cuts into the reach of everything that isn't Mastodon. Not few wish for a switch with which they can permanently filter out all posts with over 500 characters.
Others may block everyone who uses text formatting. Either it simply goes on their nerves. Or they can't imagine that it's even possible to format text in the Fediverse because they can't do that on Mastodon, so they think it's all some Unicode trickery. And as this Unicode trickery is not accessible and inclusive because it irritates screen readers, they deem whoever uses text formatting ableist and therefore blockworthy.
Then there's the issue of content warnings. They must be provided the Mastodon way, or you risk being blocked. However, not everything out there provides a) the right text field with b) the right label on it. Non-Mastodon projects may still label the summary field a summary field instead of a CW field like Mastodon does.
Friendica, for example, has done away with that text field entirely and users BBcode tags instead. Hubzilla doesn't provide any means of adding a summary/a Mastodon CW to a reply. And both have had their own way of adding CWs since long before there was Mastodon which their own users consider vastly superior to Mastodon's way.
In general, boosts are very important on Mastodon. I'd say that most activity on Mastodon is boosts because they're so easy to do on a phone without a hardware keyboard. Your reach on Mastodon depends on boosts.
But if you don't play exactly along Mastodon's written and unwritten rules, and if you don't adhere to the "Fediquette" which is entirely defined by only Mastodon users and geared towards only Mastodon's features (or lack thereof), you're boosted far less.
If you post more than 500 characters at once, it takes a lot for your post to get boosted.
If you post an image without alt-text, the post will be boosted dramatically less because not exactly few Mastodon users refuse to boost image posts without alt-text. You may even be muted or blocked for not providing alt-text. But alt-text only is a thing on Mastodon, and hardly anyone provides it outside Mastodon.
In general, anything that deviates from the standards defined by vanilla Mastodon will cut into your visibility on Mastodon deeply.
CC: @Hiker
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #Fediquette
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@F4GRX Sébastien If I had any way to add another click-to-open level that works on Mastodon as well without mobile users having to deal with their Web browser popping open, I would.
Things would be way easier if sensitive Mastodon users got used to the concept of filters, though, and learned how to set them up. That's one reason for my many hashtags.
But it's strange to see someone from chaos.social irritated by too many CWs.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta
Things would be way easier if sensitive Mastodon users got used to the concept of filters, though, and learned how to set them up. That's one reason for my many hashtags.
But it's strange to see someone from chaos.social irritated by too many CWs.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta
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Hat Friendica aber wieder ein dediziertes Zusammenfassungs-Textfeld? Die alte Dreifaltigkeit Titel, Zusammenfassung, Post?
Ich schrieb ja über Mastodon-Apps und Friendica, daß eine Mastodon-App irgendwas braucht, was genauso funktioniert wie Mastodons CW-Feld. Etwas, wo sie verläßlich immer eine CW reindrücken kann, so daß die dann genauso verläßlich wie auf Mastodon als CW funktioniert. Und zwar, ohne auf irgendwelche projektspezifischen Spezialitäten eingehen zu können.
Die App muß Friendica immer 100% verläßlich blind wie Mastodon "bedienen" können.
Natürlich kann man auf Friendica den Titel als Zusammenfassung/CW nehmen. Aber zum einen muß das eingestellt werden. Zum anderen muß die App dann die CW ins Titelfeld eintragen. Eine Mastodon-App wird aber stur versuchen, die CW ins Zusammenfassungsfeld zu drücken, ob da jetzt eins ist oder nicht.
Wenn sie jetzt die CW ins Titelfeld eintragen soll, dann ist das ein Friendica-Spezialfeature. Wenn sie selbsttätig aus den Einstellungen erkennen soll, ob die CW in den Titel eingetragen oder z. B. als BBcode realisiert werden soll, ist das erst recht ein Friendica-Spezialfeature.
Ich weiß nicht, vielleicht kann Fedilab das. Aber die ganzen praktisch reinen Mastodon-Apps, die von Leuten entwickelt werden, die ihren Lebtag von Friendica noch nie auch nur gehört haben, die können das nicht.
Eine rein gegen Mastodon entwickelte App wird wiederum für Alt-Text ein Textfeld anbieten, das den Alt-Text in ein Bild einträgt, das an einen Post als Datei angehängt ist. So läuft das nämlich auf Mastodon und nur so.
Mein letzter Informationsstand ist, daß genau das aber auf Friendica nicht geht. Wenn man da Alt-Text haben will, muß man das Bild erst hochladen, dann in-line in den Post einbetten und dann den Alt-Text in den BBcode eintragen.
Theoretisch ginge das auch mit einer App. Aber das wäre wieder ein Friendica-Special-Feature. Und eine reine Mastodon-App von einem Entwickler, der Friendica überhaupt nicht kennt, unterstützt keine Friendica-Special-Features, sondern wirklich nur und ausschließlich Sachen, die Mastodon kann und die Mastodon genau so macht.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #Friendica #MastodonApp #MastodonApps
Ich schrieb ja über Mastodon-Apps und Friendica, daß eine Mastodon-App irgendwas braucht, was genauso funktioniert wie Mastodons CW-Feld. Etwas, wo sie verläßlich immer eine CW reindrücken kann, so daß die dann genauso verläßlich wie auf Mastodon als CW funktioniert. Und zwar, ohne auf irgendwelche projektspezifischen Spezialitäten eingehen zu können.
Die App muß Friendica immer 100% verläßlich blind wie Mastodon "bedienen" können.
Natürlich kann man auf Friendica den Titel als Zusammenfassung/CW nehmen. Aber zum einen muß das eingestellt werden. Zum anderen muß die App dann die CW ins Titelfeld eintragen. Eine Mastodon-App wird aber stur versuchen, die CW ins Zusammenfassungsfeld zu drücken, ob da jetzt eins ist oder nicht.
Wenn sie jetzt die CW ins Titelfeld eintragen soll, dann ist das ein Friendica-Spezialfeature. Wenn sie selbsttätig aus den Einstellungen erkennen soll, ob die CW in den Titel eingetragen oder z. B. als BBcode realisiert werden soll, ist das erst recht ein Friendica-Spezialfeature.
Ich weiß nicht, vielleicht kann Fedilab das. Aber die ganzen praktisch reinen Mastodon-Apps, die von Leuten entwickelt werden, die ihren Lebtag von Friendica noch nie auch nur gehört haben, die können das nicht.
Eine rein gegen Mastodon entwickelte App wird wiederum für Alt-Text ein Textfeld anbieten, das den Alt-Text in ein Bild einträgt, das an einen Post als Datei angehängt ist. So läuft das nämlich auf Mastodon und nur so.
Mein letzter Informationsstand ist, daß genau das aber auf Friendica nicht geht. Wenn man da Alt-Text haben will, muß man das Bild erst hochladen, dann in-line in den Post einbetten und dann den Alt-Text in den BBcode eintragen.
Theoretisch ginge das auch mit einer App. Aber das wäre wieder ein Friendica-Special-Feature. Und eine reine Mastodon-App von einem Entwickler, der Friendica überhaupt nicht kennt, unterstützt keine Friendica-Special-Features, sondern wirklich nur und ausschließlich Sachen, die Mastodon kann und die Mastodon genau so macht.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #LangerPost #CWLangerPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #CW #CWs #CWMeta #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #ContentWarningMeta #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #Friendica #MastodonApp #MastodonApps
hub.netzgemeinde.euNetzgemeinde/Hubzilla
Should a content warning include some indication of what's inside?
If it doesn't, does it still empower people to choose what content they are exposed to?
If it does, does that upset people before they get to make a choice?
Seems there are problems either way 
Please boost for visibility. If a post needs a content warning with multiple topics, how should that be done?
Fed up with not being able to boost great toots that don't have content warnings?
Here's a bookmarklet that will let you add a content warning and repost the toot in seconds:
https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/bookmarklet/
Hope it helps—please boost for reach, and let me know how it works for you!
p.s. It's the first version; all (civil) feedback and bug reports welcome. I've tested it successfully in my versions of Firefox and Edge.
mastodoncontentmover.github.ioMastodonRetootBookmarklet