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Visible from where I'm presently sitting (the only art Randall has parted with)

@codinghorror What's "public quiet?"

I only know "unlisted" which does nothing to decrease the likelihood that the subsequent posts will appear in TLs but DOES make those posts unsearchable, which sucks - it's all downside, no benefit... to anyone.

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

@jorgecandeias @codinghorror Sounds like those people shouldn't be following me!

@jayalane @BoydStephenSmithJr @codinghorror @pluralistic.net if you click on any post in the thread, and then on the little eye icon, it should put all the posts in order and also unroll them

@phillycodehound @julian That's how I see it, yup.

@julian Thank you!

@julian @codinghorror

I explain here why I'm on this particular server:

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

@codinghorror

If you don't like my feed, but you want to see the things in it that are not threads, why wouldn't you write a bot that ingests my feed, discards the threads, and republishes the rest? The feed is both labeled *and* licensed to permit this.

Surely this is as valid a response to "I have different preference from you" as "therefore you should work in a way I prefer, rather than the way you prefer."

@codinghorror

As I've said here before, I:

* post to scratch my itch, and

* believe foursquare in your right to both read and post in ways that scratch your itch, and

* provide the legal and technological means for you to scratch your itch with my posts, but

* I draw the line at not scratching my itch in order to scratch yours.

@codinghorror

I love constructive feedback.

"Constructive feedback" isn't "I would prefer that you do things in a different way because that is my preference," however.

I'm fully aware that other people have preferences that are different from mine.

That's why I do 2-3/hours per day of unpaid administrative work to ensure that everything I post is available in other formats (including machine-readable ones) under the most permissive CC license.

@codinghorror

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 surfaces 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/