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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 06:25:41 JST Cory Doctorow

   @Difficile

   While intuitively it seems like this is how "unlisted" works, I assure you, that is not how it works, You've been given misinformation so pervasive that it constitutes the fediverse's first urban legend.

   Here's an explanation of how unlisted works, how threading works, and how to manage threads in your timeline:

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

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     Benjamin S-B :verified: (bensb@genomic.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 06:35:18 JST Benjamin S-B :verified:

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     • Difficile

     @pluralistic @Difficile I refer you to this github issue on the mastodon code adeptly called "the doctorow problem":

     https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8615

     We've been begging for a way to "fold" subtoot threads out of the main timeline, but as yet no movement on this issue...

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     Jef Poskanzer (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 07:56:20 JST Jef Poskanzer

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     • Difficile

     @pluralistic @Difficile Since I believed the legend until just now, I'm gonna screenshot the relevant paragraph from that post:

     Cory Doctorow repeated this.
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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 08:31:18 JST Mina

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     • Jef Poskanzer
     • Difficile

     @jef

     About 99% of Mastodon believe this and messes around with the visibility of posts, making the first "public" and the subsequent ones "unlisted".

     No, people, you're not causing less "noise" in other people's timelines!

     You're just making it impossible to search for specific topics in the thread.

     I hate that (mostly because, I have explained this about 100 times, but they still do this shit)

     @pluralistic @Difficile

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     jen (jenmarin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 08:31:23 JST jen

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     • Difficile

     @pluralistic @Difficile thanks for posting this. Getting tips on how to handle reading threads is super helpful. It was the one thing that kept me on twitter so long. And yes, composing in stanzas. I really likec reading your essays in stanza format.

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     Charlesflorian (charlesflorian@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:57:11 JST Charlesflorian

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     • Benjamin S-B :verified:
     • Difficile

     @bensb @pluralistic @Difficile
     The fact that there is now a "doctorow problem" based on his threads suggests maaaaaaaybe that a technical solution isn't the only possibility?

     Personally I set up a filter to hide all the rest of the posts. But I think it might be something to consider for @pluralistic as well. Maybe just post a few chunks and send people to your blog if they want to keep reading?