Unfortunately, the current mastodon UX does not have explicit support for threading posts like twitter does:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8615

and therefore, threads will flood your followers' timelines and show up in reverse chronological order, potentially interleaved with unrelated, concurrently published, posts by other people they follow.

A potential stop-gap solution would be to publish only the first post and then mark the subsequent threaded reply posts as "unlisted":

https://docs.framasoft.org/en/mastodon/User-guide.html#toot-privacy

[The Doctorow Problem] Fold toots in a thread, only display some of them in timeline · Issue #8615 · mastodon/mastodon

Currently, when someone composes several tweets in a thread, this quickly swamps the timeline: This is undesirable, especially when the topic is not interesting to me. Twitter has (in my opinion) i...

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@ogrisel i have to admit, i've had some thoughts of taking time off to work on "fixing" some mastodon stuff

@arnicas I am not a ruby developer myself but maybe I should learn :)

Let me know if you work a PR, at least I can try to give it a review.

@ogrisel omg it's ruby, i hadn't realized that. never mind :)