I want to publicly apologize for making a complete hash of the thread posting conventions with my thread about emus, vuvuzelas, Kant, and Rupert Murdoch. Thank you to those who kindly educated me.
For those who have been here a while, it must feel like Eternal September on steroids to have all of these noisy n00bs come rolling in all at once in a gigantic wave. I hope you’ll forgive me, and I will work hard to learn and acclimate as quickly as possible.
A number of people have asked what I could have done better. In particular, I should have set the first post in the thread to public and the rest of the posts as unlisted.
Here's a fantastic explainer from @djnavarro via @flodebarre:
https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/#how-can-i-make-threads
(It's worth reading the entire thing. I learned a ton.)
Re: excellent blog post of @djnavarro, a response
@ct_bergstrom @djnavarro@scholar.social @flodebarre
also
@djnavarro@fosstodon.org
Re: https://
blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-
11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/
Excellent article. A couple of notes if it helps:
> Posts on mastodon are called “toots” and have a 500 character limit
This actually depends on the instances. For example, https://qoto.org allows 65k characters and markdown formatting, so there is some flexibility there
* While you cannot do equivalent of 'retweet', if you respond to a toot, that serves the purpose of both reply and quote 'toot' if it were
If you hit reply and write a status in the reply, it will by default also include the original post that evoked the response to keep in context. This is the basis of reply used as quote toot.
Now, if you do not want the original poster to be included in the status that you want to share to your **followers**, remove the original poster's handle from the reply.
If you specifically want your friend to view that post, add his handle to the post.
On some instances, such as https://qoto.org
they have a quote button; you can use this quote button to directly insert the post to quote toot, so to say.
@arinbasu thank you! I've been wondering that about replying. If I think something is neat and I know my friend will like it, what's the best way to draw it to their attention in the absence of a QT function? Is it polite to tag them in a reply? On the other site that would have been considered snitch tagging.