Mastodon: Add content warning on a boost

[rbelu]

Give the opportunity to add a CW when you boost a toot which doesn't have already a CW

Pitch

As a user, i'd like to have the opportunity to add a CW to a toot when I boost it.

Motivation

CW rules are different in the instances of the fediverse. Sometimes, i'd like to boost a toot which have no CW but contains mention of violence, rape, ...

On the instance where I have my accounts violence, rape .. should be hide behind a CW so I don't share interesting content because of that

[SuperSandro2000]

This would alter the toot you are boosting and I don't like the idea of that.

[bubblineyuri]

This really looks just another interpretation of the "quote tweet" feature of Twitter which is one of the many reasons why people use Mastodon.

[rbelu]

I understand the point. But, you can actually quote a toot by sharing its
link which seems to be worst than the feature I propose because the author
of the initial toot is not notified.

I won't talk for other people, but on my side i did not leave twitter
because of the quote feature but because of their uge lack of moderation
and CW are part of the response to it.

[Cassolotl]

Kind of a duplicate of Feature request: Boost with a CW #2719, where Gargron said "(Essentially) duplicate of #309".

[davidak]

And #309 was closed because it could be used for harassment.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/309#issuecomment-469260847

But i think there could be technical solutions found to prevent this.

For CWs, could Mastodon include default categories where a user can categorize their toots under? Could there be a consensus of topics that should have a CW? That would also help users to decide if a CW would be good. They could be recommended while composing a toot based on keywords. And also instance admins could add instance specific categories. Sure instance admins that promote harassment can include hateful categories like "Untermensch", but we block those instances, right?

@Gargron i need this feature right now because my instance urges everyone to CW all posts related to COVID-19. I can do that for my own posts, but not boosts! So i can't share important or funny posts unless i copy the content and create my own toot with CW which breaks the connection to the original (which might include useful comments).

https://chaos.social/@ordnung/103809178144073770

[rbelu]

Same on my instance, a lot of toot are linked to add CW on posts related to Covid-19 and Cop violence which are trending topics in France right now.

[bubblineyuri]

Personally I would only give this change a try if there was an actual indication that the boosted toot has been altered e.g. a small pencil icon and if you hover over it it will give you the following information

"This boost has been altered to include a content warning. The original post may reflect different views."