@Riedl It might be nice to spread awareness that by default, i.e. public visibility, every single post in a thread will show up separately on timelines.

Some guides recommend to only make the first post public, and all follow-ups unlisted, so people only see the full thread if they click on the first post.

Folks coming from Twitter are likely not used to the concept of post visibility (& I'm not sure yet if that's more of a burden than a feature for writing threads, but think ppl should know).

@cpaxton @mbollmann Threading on Mastodon frustrates me. The Toot! ios app helps a lot with indicators in the UI. But it is a bandaid.

I think there are ways in which academics use threads and quote-tweets that are different and more constructive than other communities.

@Riedl @mbollmann i think there are plenty of people who use threads very well outside of academia, i don't like the idea that only academics/researchers can do it right.

Quote-tweet dunking is a real problem, but I'm reluctant to say mastodon does it better, right now mastodon seems... pretty ideologically homogeneous. as in all people I broadly agree with. Wonder how it will change as it grows

@cpaxton Oh oops, I didn't mean to say that only academics do threading right (I need to sleep). I meant to say it was important to how they come to communicate about work and discover work.

I'm torn on quote tweeting. I see the potential for abuse but I also see it as really useful. It could be an option for an instance to use or not. Community standards can be set on how it's used.