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If you're posting a thread on here, numbering its posts can be a good way of indicating they are part of a thread. People may see individual posts shared out of context and not realise they are part of a thread, which is why numbering can be useful.
You can number simply by just putting 1,2,3 etc at the end, or 1/3, 2/3 etc if you know how many posts there are. Some people put 
next to numbers to indicate a thread.
More info about creating threads at:
@FediTips What a lot of things we have to do because of lazy admins unwilling to remove the post length limit....
It's not about laziness, it's about there being no direct setting for character limits in vanilla Mastodon. This has been rumbling on for years:
Actually it's about the decision by mastodon to be a microblogging software. You can choose a different activityPub software all together if you actually don't want to be in a microblogging environment and should do so. Also, there is no harm in having several accounts in the fediVerse, all the contrary.
@jesuisatire @FediTips
Historically, afaik, the term “microblogging” itself originated in relation to birdsite and the reason for the restrictions was the length of SMS. When SMS lost relevance, the restriction was extended (not much, but for money, whatever you want).
This did not lead to anything good, except for the vicious practices of posting text-in-picture or cramming kilobytes into alt-descriptions.
P.S. Threads are evil. Worse are only people who
write
in messengers
like this ;-)
@jesuisatire @FediTips ...While the SMS format supposed to split long texts into several messages, and for non-Latin-based languages the length of one SMS is limited to 64 characters (so 140 characters is already 2 SMS).
Actually, my point is that clinging to supposedly “historical” restrictions that no one originally followed due to their absurdity is a dead end.
It's a style, a choice.
Same goes for other decisions, like 4 images for example, or how to display toots and answers.
I'm nearly exclusively on desktop.
I actually prefer the #diaspora layout, the capabilities #friendica offers me and consider that the disruptive display of #mastodon foments bad habits like shout boxing, dog piling, not reading if there are already answers like my own and fomenting invisibility of harassment.
These differences create different environments.
@FediTips
It's a style, a choice.
In fact - the choice of one person, with great merit but not very clear motivation. And at the moment neither this conservatism, nor the laziness of admins who do not try to change what can be changed, does not contribute to the popularization of the platform as a whole.
I'm nearly exclusively on desktop.
I actually prefer the #diaspora layout, the capabilities #friendica offers me
I mostly sit from my desktop too, and the Mastodon interface is exactly what I really, really like. Because I can tweak it with custom CSS, a couple userscripts and browser extensions ;-) Without that, of course, it's totally unusable crap, and I feel pity for those who sit on a “known” server with a default interface...
Posts and comments, on the other hand, are not interface-dependent, only protocol-dependent (which, by the way, realizes HTML/Markdown formatting).
P.S. What is "shout boxing"? ;-)
One of my profiles is on a 5k limite instance, and in general the community is quite a hacker community. Than there are hardforks, so these are decisions by the admins and the users. I'm fine with that. For me this is the fediVerse I'm in and depending on my needs I use the profile of choice.
"Shout boxing" is shouting out your opinion into the web without even engaging in conversations, listening or asking for the benefit of the doubt, no fav, no boost, only me! me! me!.
> does not contribute to the popularization of the platform as a whole
Actually I came to the conclusion that a overwhelming influx of users that come with their own habits like lately from twitter destroys the existing culture in ways I don't consider healthy. If we are interested to evolve a different "better nicer" community we need a certain time to evolve that and preserve better habits we might have developed. So to a certain extent I prefer slow but steady.
Actually I came to the conclusion that a overwhelming influx of users that come with their own habits like lately from twitter destroys the existing culture in ways I don't consider healthy.
I wouldn't say Twitter is such a hotbed of hate, lack of culture and bad manners. Some specific rules of communication can be established only in narrowly themed communities, or at the level of moderation of illegal behavior on large sites. But in general, the Fediverse is as diverse as the Internet as a whole. It's just that not everyone can see it behind fediblock ;-)
If we are interested to evolve a different "better nicer" community we need a certain time to evolve that and preserve better habits we might have developed.
Sounds fantastic. You can't sit on two chairs, promoting freedom of speech while simultaneously restricting it at your own whim. As they used to say, “It's the internet, baby, you can be told to ‘fuck off’”.
But what does the culture of communication have to do with contrived technical restrictions? Yes, in 500 characters you can fuck off your opponent less times, but you can do it in a thread ;-D
The setup of decentralization should lead to a diverse community where everyone can find and create his/her niche.
I consider that best option is a lot of small and midsized instances. Moderation is the bootleneck so big instances, like mastodon.social are really bad for the community.
The problem is that the people didn't want to leave twitter because they didn't like it the way it was so they basically just want to have it back.
Well, I and those who fled twitter don't.
@johan
For example, it really, but really really pisses me off when people come over here, to this existing community, and complain and even insult, if this community asks them, again and again, to add #altText to their pictures because that's more inclusive and we try to be that way.
For me it was new too, but I didn't even thought about not trying to learn/incorporate that habit.
How arrogant and asozial can you possibly be to not try to respect and integrate good things like that?
@FediTips
@jesuisatire @FediTips Alt-text is a feature, not a requirement. According to your own position, you can raise a separate inclusive instance where it will be mandatory, but don't disadvantage the majority for the sake of minority interests. That way you can get to the point of requiring lyrics to be added to music and explaining the meaning of jokes for those who don't get it...
If this problem is to be solved, it should not be at the expense of content creators, but on the side of consumers. AI can easily describe in great detail any picture on the Internet. That's what needs to be implemented, not driving everyone into a made-up framework of behavior.
@johan
> lack of culture and bad manners
I reefer to certain excessive habits that emerged on the walled social gardens and the internet culture.
Concepts like:
#replyGuy #dontFeedTheTroll #wokism #mansplaining #putinVersteher #whiteGuy
All these became what we call "Totschlagargumente" and generalizations, arguments that end any kind of coherent conversation because it suits the own bias and ego.
The result is division and aggression instead of conversation and understanding.