Oh, one more Bluesky specific: I don't know how perfectly the automod is catching the video/stills, but go to Settings, Moderation, scroll down to Content Filters, and set "Graphic Media" to warn or hide if you had it on "show". (It's gotten quite a few for me.)

All of these tips are derived from the psychological protections developed for content moderators, and if you want more detail and citations, crowd.cs.vt.edu/wp-content/u... is the paper that has the best collection of citations that I've found .

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

Thanks for the corroboration, the more deets the better in this kind of situation.

I appreciate the idea, but I can see the writing on the wall.

My books have LGBTQIA+ people in them. Depicted in a positive, accepted way. The bigots pressuring the payment processors will not accept that, and any site that caves to them won't host my work.

I've removed them from itch.