@FirstProgenitor

since you intend to subpost me (and somebody boosted it) i feel the need to provide an informative reply.

- The "foundation of the fediverse" is ActivityStreams 2.0.

- ActivityStreams 2.0 specifies the use of ontological tags for the purpose of content filtering.

- The Mastodon CW system does not use ontological tags, but instead abuses the `summary` field on messages.

- Mastodon's developer was not in favor of CWs, CWs landed in Mastodon as "spoiler alerts" and this is reflected in the Mastodon API where CWs are referred to as spoiler_text.

- Using ontological tags for filtering would allow the end user to decide for themselves what content they should see or not see, while encouraging creators to tag their posts by design as they help to improve reach and discoverability, not just improved curation.

- I actually support authoring posts with as much tagging as is practical, but only if the experience is frictionless. Mastodon's CW system, due to political compromise, is worst of all possible worlds: high friction for both authors and consumers with little control given to neither.