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 Someone yelled at me for posting monochrome photos again.

That's kind of annonying, but this place still has fewer Nazis than that other place, so I'll be sticking around (along with my dreary monochrome photos, devoid of all color and joy as they may be). 
 @f1c6c5c3 That's a new one. Why are they against monochrome? 
 This is the third time I've gotten complaints about this, as far as I can tell, all from actual non-otherwise-troll people. Apparently there's a small but vocal minority here that find black & white photos inherently "depressing", and insist on content warnings and labels for them.

I don't want to cause anyone needless depression or grief, but I'm afraid I find this expectation unreasonable and unworkable. No one can possibly anticipate every idiosyncratic thing that someone might react to. 
 @f1c6c5c3 Wait, what? Sorry. Glad you (and your photos) are here 
 @f1c6c5c3 add a hashtag to all of your monochrome images and then tell people who don't want to see them that they should mute it in their Mastodon Filters. 
 @f1c6c5c3 I hope you don’t stop posting black and white photos. I myself am currently on my first ever roll of Ilford HP5. Those people should mind their own business. 
 @f1c6c5c3 You are being kind (your characterization of ‘kind of annoying’). 
 @f1c6c5c3 You can tag them so he can filter. Or you can ignore him. 
 @f1c6c5c3

Matt, horseshit! And they are full of it. 
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