#KellyLink is one of science fiction's most important writers, a master of the short story to rank with the likes of #TedChiang. For a decade, Kelly's friends have traded whispers that she was working on a novel - a *giant* novel - and the rumors were true and the novel is glorious and you will *love it*:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-love-9781804548455/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/
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@pluralistic Instead of putting long threads behind content warnings, why not just mark replies as unlisted?
That way, only the thread top post shows up in our home feeds and we don't have to click through endless CWs to read the thread.
@LouisIngenthron You have fallen prey to the fediverse's longest-running and most pervasive urban legend. That is absolutely not how unlisting works.
More here:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/
@pluralistic Wow. I was so convinced of that one that I had to test it myself to confirm. Thanks for the correction.
I guess the only real answer then is to join an instance without a character limit so you don't have to thread posts together at all.
@LouisIngenthron Thanks - that's covered in the article I sent you as well.
@pluralistic @LouisIngenthron All fair enough, and the tip about expanding the content warnings for the whole thread with one click is handy.
Two quibbles:
Your statement that "Mastodon doesn’t have a search function" is now somewhat out of date, isn't it?
If a benefit of the long thread content warning is that it "reduces the amount of vertical space it takes up, and thus the number of other kinds of post it displaces", why include an image with each one? (I wondered if those images were automatically being pulled from pages you link to, but that doesn't appear to be the case.)
If none of those suit, the entire feed is CC BY. You can automate a version that suits your needs, and even charge money for it, so long as you preserve a link to the original and note the license.
@pluralistic @LouisIngenthron "I only include images in my daily pinned post"
I'm confused, then. What am I seeing here?
Top: recent appearances
Bottom: upcoming appearances
Again, it's fine if you don't like this, or if it doesn't make sense to you.
There are plenty of ways to get my feeds, or you can just not get them.
@pluralistic @LouisIngenthron Yes, I get that there are alternate ways to read your stuff. I usually read them directly on your blog after finding out about them on Mastodon.
My question is why every single post in the long thread gets an image. You have carefully thought out and explained your posting policy, but this seems inconsistent with it (specifically with using content warnings to reduce vertical feed space).
@peterdrake @LouisIngenthron I've explained it twice. it may just be that you don't see things the way I do. That's fine, but explaining a third time isn't a good use of my time, and you're welcome to figure it out, or not, on your own.
@pluralistic @LouisIngenthron Okay, I'll look back over the thread more carefully and see if I can find the explanation of the images. Apologies for the waste of time.
In all sincerity, keep up the good work.
@peterdrake It's also strange that I'm not seeing your unlisted replies here in my home feed.
I wonder if the "unlisted" mode has different functionality based on whether you're replying to yourself or someone else?
@peterdrake @LouisIngenthron
I only include images in my daily pinned post, which is a colophon linking to all sorts of other materials. The images signpost the sort of content that's in the post (e.g. retrospective links, etc).
It's totally OK if this isn't your thing. I offer multiple ways to get my feeds (RSS, email, web, Masto, Twitter, Medium, Discourse) and you can unsub here and follow in one of those ways.