I do the same with all things Trump, Musk, Twitter, or new Star Trek. I enjoy seeing those miniscule messages that something on that topic is currently hidden from me. The author still gets to enjoy their exposition, and I still get to enjoy my continued ignorance. :) Filtering (and its opposite, hashtag subscription) is very effective.
The content warning method leads to faster permutation explosion, though, since it requires every author to anticipate every possible reader's every possible reaction. When everything is content warned, then there's no longer any such thing as actual text exposition. I've seen at least once site that wanted all posts unrelated to that site's reason-for-existing to be content warned, so they wouldn't normally show up in full height on the local feed. It leads to everything being gated eventually. Which makes simple tagging of topics much more effective, since it can be done automatically without even the author's effort (but it's better with the intentional work). Leaving control over it to the recipient is what provides self-agency and psychological relief, not gating words... or so I'm arguing, at least.
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The content warning method leads to faster permutation explosion, though, since it requires every author to anticipate every possible reader's every possible reaction. When everything is content warned, then there's no longer any such thing as actual text exposition. I've seen at least once site that wanted all posts unrelated to that site's reason-for-existing to be content warned, so they wouldn't normally show up in full height on the local feed. It leads to everything being gated eventually. Which makes simple tagging of topics much more effective, since it can be done automatically without even the author's effort (but it's better with the intentional work). Leaving control over it to the recipient is what provides self-agency and psychological relief, not gating words... or so I'm arguing, at least.