So many people on this app get very hostile to any potentially useful feature request. Please understand that we all use platforms differently! A great social platform serves a wide variety of needs.
@Gargron Thread in Mastodon are not obvious. What people want is to post pictures of their dog and ask for others' pictures of their dogs and then see that these replies exist in one glance.
@Gargron how do threads work? How do specify “this is a thread“ or “this is post one of eight“? I've seen people make it up, but nothing that looked like it was natively part of Mastodon.
@ianchanning Reply to your own post to chain your posts together. Your self-replies will appear higher than other people's replies when viewing a thread.
@Gargron @ianchanning Yeah, but you can not postpone posting the first toot of the thread. You can only write the second tooth after having posted the first. That is pretty bad, because writing a good thread takes time, and you only want to post the whole thing when it is finished.
@Gargron @ianchanning If you want to, I should have added. Because I wouldn't want to flood followers' timelines with stuff that may only interest one or two of them. Though it's also possible to just cover the first post with a content wrapper/warning. I'm not sure if that has the same effect though.
@Gargron @ianchanning From a reader’s perspective, this is identical. What’s being requested is a separate compose mode where you can compose the whole thread before posting any of it. Some of the apps offer this.
@Gargron it's not very obvious that threads exist / how people should make threads (people often reply multiple times to the first tweet instead of replying to each previous tweet). This issue has a suggestion for making that better: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22884
Pitch User creates a post and in the same post he makes several threads of posts. Each new branch is created by clicking on the +, many call it a thread, in portuguese Brasilian it is called "...
@Gargron Threads suck. I used to block them on the bird site. I agree with Thomas from the quoted post that long-form writing should be posted elsewhere and linked to from Mastodon.
@Gargron The original poster was looking for a way / client to post a thread all at once, to avoid pauses and gaps between the related posts. (And contrary to what some have assumed, the OP did not want longer posts for this — they wanted the separation the individual posts yield, but that they were part of an overall whole. This was for their stories of library drop-in days; threads that I enjoyed reading elsewhere.)
@Gargron I think what people want is the ability to compose a whole thread and post everything together in one go. Otherwise people with lots of followers may get some initial responses in the middle of the thread before they had the chance to post everything they wanted to express.
@Gargron While there is certainly room for improvement, and improvements to threading do seem to be on the roadmap (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap), threading in Mastodon is actually pretty good.
Here is a pretty (...way too?) detailed explainer on how to thread in Mastodon:
Sections:
Current News
Quick Start Tips
Cool Features: Lists, Filters and Followed Hashtags
Post Images Like a Pro — Solving the Image Posting Puzzle
Threading and Pinning
Help and Guidance
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Eugen Rochko
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Jan Adriaenssens
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •You have to manually reply to a previous post, you can't prepare a thread in the online interface.
AndreaCPowers
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Ian Channing 🦈
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Ian Channing 🦈 • • •Ian Channing 🦈
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Lennart Quispel
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Sally Jeffery
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Sally Jeffery • • •Sally Jeffery
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Anthony Sorace
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eugen Rochko
in reply to Anthony Sorace • • •Ian Channing 🦈
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •John Payne :procella:
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Drafts Directory: Post Thread
directory.getdrafts.comDave Winer ☕️
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •I have that working for twitter now and could easily adapt it for mastodon if you would help promote.
http://thread.center
Leon Overweel
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Inclusion of the thread button (+) for threading posts into a single post · Issue #22884 · mastodon/mastodon
GitHubAtanas Entchev
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Den Spier
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Andrew Abernathy
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Brar Piening
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Otherwise people with lots of followers may get some initial responses in the middle of the thread before they had the chance to post everything they wanted to express.
@taylorlorenz
Mastodon Migration
in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Here is a pretty (...way too?) detailed explainer on how to thread in Mastodon:
Threading and Pinning >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#acad
#twittermigration #NewHere #help
Sharing advice and assisting with the great Mastodon migration
Mastodon Migration (Medium)