Mastodawn

Garry Knight Nov 5, 2022

How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to it again, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

@garry Honestly, I wouldn't say that's a fundamental difference! We tend to make threads that don't go unlisted all the time, personally. But if it's long and rambly, we'll add a CW once we notice.

Also, unlisted still puts the entire thread on your followers' home TLs. :3 CWs help both there and on local.