In spring 2020, I crafted myself 5 rules for how I would engage on Twitter. Generally, I think they've worked well for me:
1. Tweet with intent 🖋️
2. Stay positive 🙂
3. Engage in good faith 🫱🏿🫲🏻
4. You don't owe anyone a response 💁🏻♀️
5. Never feed the trolls 🧌
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@firefoxx66 Excuse me Dr. Hodcroft. There is an old twitter habit you have that doesn't work very well in the tech/paradigm of Mastodon for engagement.
The replies may not all federate to other instances, meaning that someone on a different instance might only see part of the thread before it seemingly stops abruptly.
It is perhaps better to use a short summary and then link to a blog post or link to an article you have written. ( e.g https://fediverse.blog/ )
@firefoxx66 indeed... unfortunately that doesn't work well. The only thing I could suggest as a work-around would be to make sure you copy the -link- to the just submitted post into the next one using a short URL generator perhaps?
It's a bit of an awkward solution, but the [1/n] was a hack on Birdsite to start with.
If I come up with any better solutions, I'll ping you!
Dr Emma Hodcroft 
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