@drdrowland If you respond to yourself, it's still visible in the timelines... I think a solution would be to make your responses unlisted (click on the world icon and change into unlisted). That way you won't spam the public timelines beyond your first post.

@trinsec unlist? like voluntarily reduce how loud i'm talking? hah. that's a good functionality.

@drdrowland Hehe, it's useful. Many bots are unlisted (or they'd get banned from spamming the timeline) for example.

So if you think you'll have a looooooot of stuff to say, maybe first post with normal visibility and announce a stream of consciousness incoming.

Then respond to that with unlisted, any responses to unlisted will automatically be unlisted already I believe, so you only should need to do that once.

Any followers you have will see everything in their home timeline still. Anyone checking out your toots in your profile will see everything as well. It'll just not spam the public timelines.

I'm just brainstorming along here.

@drdrowland I've seen other people reporting on games (soccer mostly) with certain hashtags so that can be filtered out if people don't want to see it. So that's the other possibility if you don't want to go unlisted.

@trinsec excellent brainstorming. i've practiced that a lot this year so i'm a fan. thanks.

@trinsec a hashtag on every offending post?

@drdrowland Yeah, or respond to your thread with posts marked as unlisted. That way only your followers would see everything. And if you wanted to spare your followers, a hashtag on every post they can filter that one out. It depends on how you want to approach this.