Elisabeth AndersonAnother #MastodonTip I've learned is that if you're posting a long thread then make the first one public (with the 🌍Public: Post to public timelines) but make the rest of them unlisted (with the 🔓Unlisted: Do not show in public timelines) which means the replies don't appear on people's timelines but the first post does! ☺️
Chris Gerhard 
@velobetty and everyone can still see the replies via the first post? I assume yes but have never seen this
@chrisgerhard Yes they can still see them from the original toot although they wouldn't see, like, 2/3 in the public timeline but they would see 1/3.
artsyhonker@velobetty @chrisgerhard That's not quite how it works!
Unlisted toots do not appear in the local timeline on your instance, or the federated timeline. But they do appear in the timeline of people who follow you.
@artsyhonker @velobetty the app I have offers 3 options
1) public
2)followers only
3)only people mentioned
Which seems clear. Its a pity there is not an option that does what @velobetty described
@chrisgerhard @artsyhonker Ah, I'm using Tusky which supports those options. The web UI does too.
@velobetty @artsyhonker oh yes. Tusky has another option. Unlisted, which this reply is.
@chrisgerhard @velobetty Yes, but unlisted replies *still show in the home timeline of people who follow you*. They don't show in the local instance timeline or the federated timeline.
@artsyhonker @chrisgerhard Yes, unlisted doesn't replace CWs!
If you CW the first then the rest *should* have the same CW though.
@velobetty @chrisgerhard Yes, you can change it (as I sometimes do because I am very tangent-y), but replies automatically inherit the CW of the toot they are replying to.
Dave Warnock@artsyhonker @velobetty @chrisgerhard there are times when I'd like to be able to add a cw before boosting a post. The only option seems to be to add a reply with cw which I find a bit clunky (both to do and to read).
@Dave42W @velobetty @chrisgerhard Yeah, this is just clunky. The other option is a new toot with a CW, with a link to the un-CWd toot inside it.
I generally just don't boost stuff if I think it really needs a CW and doesn't have one.
@artsyhonker @chrisgerhard Yes, I think that's a good thing.