@Daojoan It just doesn't make sense when a writer can just post the blog post on something Fedi and people can literally follow the blog from Mastodon. It was a (bad) way to deal with the limitations of Twitter, but it's obsolete and annoying.
@Daojoan One nice advantage is that the author can add images to each post in the thread, making it a pretty natural flow.
A great example of someone who threads very regularly is @AkaSci. These threads are nicely constructed with each post kind of like a different mini-chapter. Think it works great.
@Daojoan Posting your content to the microblog rather than just sharing a link has the advantage that it's more immediate: accessible and readable without there being an extra click in the way
Posting your content as a thread rather than one long post has the advantage that individual parts of the argument can be replied to and shared, which is more specific and focused than replying to the whole thing and then saying "I disagree with paragraph 4"
@Daojoan alas, can't vote with a simple yes or no because it will depend on context and scale.
There's also the variable nature of Mastodon post limits, which in some cases will cause a single long post (i.e. not a thread) to become a thread of three or four.
@hp@Daojoan Hmmm... the comments shouldn't fill the timeline if you expand the post. If you click on any post in the thread the author's entire thread should be displayed intact at the top, with all the comments below.
@Daojoan I like reading them, but I also would pretty please like to have a stable long-term URL for bookmarking/archiving/citing sometimes. @lisamelton
@Daojoan Good, but maybe more summary in the toot, and then a reason to click if I want to read more, without it feeling clickbaity (which makes me not click, out of spite).
@Daojoan Mastodon handles threads really badly. I find it really frustrating to see the end, or part of a conversation when I'm scrolling through my timeline, only to find the OP further down my timeline.
For example, you post:
I see
Replies to your post.
3.
... Other posts
2.
... Other posts
1.
Not only does it suck with structured content, but it ruins jokes too.
@Daojoan Depends on the length and timing. If it fits in a handful of toots and they’re all posted at once, then I don’t mind and will probably read it. If it spans dozens of toots and/or they’re not posted all at once so other content gets interleaved with them, that’s too much.
@Daojoan Ambivalent. Mastodon is a little less good at filtering threads, feels like?
We now have integrations of blogs into ActivityPup, I think that‘s a good channel to post the blog long-form directly into the network. Otherwise, post a blog link and maybe some commentary?
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