Every day, I have someone in my mentions who's upset because they read *one* post in a thread, and make big conclusions.

Then I ask them, "Have you read the whole thread?"

Well, have you?

Why I write Mastodon threads instead of blog posts:

1. It's how my brain thinks -- not everything comes to me at once
2. It allows me to make individual points in a larger conversation
3. I find myself adding to threads as commenters bring up additional points
4. In my real life, I talk to myself

I've tried to write really long posts on my Pleroma instance. But it instead ends up like a Mastodon thread anyway. 5,000 characters, and I only use 300 of them in the initial post.

And then I think about something else, and so I add to the initial post.

Kind of like what I'm doing right now.