Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging? 🤔
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Re: Look, Cory, I love you man, but have you considered blogging?
@codinghorror@infosec.exchange hey Jeff, to be fair I think @pluralistic@mamot.fr has been doing the best with the tooling available at the time.
We're at a place now where that isn't the case, and a different software could be used (like a truly federated forum!!) or at minimum just a server that sends more than 500 characters at a time.
Here is a detailed explanation of how and why I use Mastodon, how to follow me and other thread posters by configuring your own filters, where to get my material on other services or in machine readable form, Etc. if you don't like threads, I encourage you to unfollow me and get my work in some other way. https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/16/how-to-make-the-least-worst-mastodon-threads/
@pluralistic @codinghorror
If you're good with being on Threads, read the election influence section here:
@pluralistic @codinghorror Hey hey, minor correction to your article. You reference "Long thread /" as the filter both in text and the screenshot, but it looks like it should be "Long thread/" without the second space. Appreciate your work!
@pluralistic @codinghorror
wouldn't it be great if this medium could handle the basic features of the web that existed in 1993?
i documented this in
cory if you got on board with this, people would pay attention.
@pluralistic @codinghorror
I have avoided following you because of the long threads but if there's one thing this conversation has shown me it's how to configure my filters to not have that problem.
Another thought although it may be more complicated: what if you have a second account that posts only the long thread blog posts in response to the header from your main account and gets boosted by the main account? Muting an account is a lot more discoverable and easy than configuring a filter
@gbargoud @codinghorror
It's a nice idea for someone else to implement! I'm already doing a stupendous amount of administrative work just to post to all the platforms I keep up with. The point of publishing a machine-readable, open-licensed version of everything is to let other people do those remixes, to their taste.
@pluralistic @codinghorror
Just keep doing what you're doing in the way you're doing it!
I subscribe to your RSS feed, but also follow you here. I've got a filter in place to filter out your long threads, but am able to see the comments folks post here in response to your posts. Seeing the replies others post often piques my interest enough to open up my RSS feedreader and read your blog post in its entirety.
Thanks for your generosity in sharing your insights so freely in this way.
@juliesbits @codinghorror for iOS users, Tapestry by @Iconfactory is great for reading @pluralistic. I have the RSS of the blog in my timeline that only shows up once, and then I have this filter that works beautifully for filtering out the long threads. This way I get the full blog text, truncated in the timeline, but easy to click on and read, and also all of the comments and re-posts from Cory. The best of both worlds.
@pluralistic @codinghorror
tl;dr, here's my Cory Mastodon Survival Filter:
tl;dr, here's my Cory Mastodon Survival Filter:
Filter / Cory
Home and lists
Hide Completely
Keywords:
essay-formatted version of this thread
Long thread/
#Pluralistic
@pluralistic I don’t want to unfollow you I want to encourage you to perform at maximum
@pluralistic if you don’t like constructive feedback I encourage you to do as thou wilt, and make it the whole of the law
@codinghorror People need to discover “Quiet public”. Post the first post in a thread public, then the rest Quiet Public, and the whole thing is available but only the first goes in people’s timelines.
@codinghorror I followed them for a while but it got a tiny bit much :)
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