@floofpaldi thanks panda. I wasn't trying to call you out. but so is the entire chapter the snip you shared in the screenshot or just a particular part.

guess I'm just the lucky goober who's got a 2 mill char limit cuz my instance owner dared someone to something. so I can just post the text full stop.

but in fairness I still felt I had to ask ya know?

and I've got a backlog of some 8? chapters... the version of slice of life on AO3 is on chapter 27. I'm up to chapter 36 but when most of the files are done through metaphysical channeled discord chats. well that involves tweeking. 28 was almost done, 29 30 and 31 and 32 are done 30 and 32 wern't done over discord. 33 came along 34, and 35 were between uh... yesterday and the day before yesterday. 36 I know how it goes but my brain's like wee splat. the snip I shared was from the start of 36.

goddess why am I rambling at you. sorry panda!

@floofpaldi 500 characters is a pittance for any writer, especially considering hashtags and the heading line of the prompt. I know that folk like Cory Doctrow do threaded responses and a link. On occasion, I do them also, especially if I need to CW the excerpt that begins in the first reply. Yeah, threading—apportioning out a post over a number of replies—is a PITA, but for a bit more effort, splitting an excerpt will allow the author you are in your soul to control the exact excerpt presented for effect. Of course, link it, too! Any promo is a good promo if you suck in a reader!

@lunar_fang Would threaded excerpts and snippets work well with your screen reader?

Hey, @pluralistic: is there software or a macro that allows you to thread simply, or do you do it manually?

#PennedPossibilities

@sfwrtr @floofpaldi @lunar_fang

Here's some on this:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/

@pluralistic

Very interesting, especially the view on stanza writing. I've never seen your posts out of order. Maybe I should dust off my programming to look at Mastodon on GitHub.

However, you didn't say whether or not you have helper software to post your "stanzas," or if you are clicking the thread button and manually copying a selection from a document, pasting it into a reply, and pressing Post, rinse repeat. Respect, if that's what you do!

PS: It's always fascinated me about the 500-5,000 character limit. The byte limit for images is magnitudes higher. Defaulting to 500 is likely not saving anyone disk space compared to already compressed jpegs or pings, even if the server further compresses them or lowers their dimensions. It's a design choice by the devs.