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afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷
@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place

boundaries

I think there's more important things than this, but...

I think it's important to set boundaries, and to be clear and direct concerning them.

But telling someone else how they should do a thing, so that you remain comfortable regardless of whether they are as well is not cool.

For example...

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷
@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place

I hugely dislike sports talk. I do NOT hate sports. Just the culture in general about them, especially in America.

And so I have said often, that I filter all sports toots. That's my boundary. I want to read the people I follow, but no the sports stuff. That's how I roll.

But I would NOT go to someone tooting non-stop about sports and tell them how to use CWs, or tags.

Maybe, maaaybe, I could ASK them for tags, but not TELL them. Asking a favor is different from an order. Savvy?

afreytes, 👁️‍🗨️of🇵🇷
@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place

Same thing with ALT text.

I think I put ALT text in all my images. And hopefully I haven't failed.

And when people post images with no ALT I just don't favorite or boost. But I will probably copy the image and post it myself with ALT.

But I think I don't need to ask them to add ALT text, whether it's that one image, or all their images.

I can just tell them my boundary. No ALT? No boost, no likes.

Do you see where I am going with this?