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]
@tree @garry Depending on what 'version' of Mastodon your server runs, it can be. On mine, there's a button in the compose box labelled "threaded mode", that will automatically start a reply when you post the first thing.
But also, you might not NEED it anywhere as much as on twitter! Threading started as a necessity because of the strict character count... and mastodon allows that limit to be changed! My own server may be on the extreme end of these things, we have: 5000 characters per post. 💃 ✨ #twittermigration
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