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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
@noelle
Mastodon tip: You can reply to your own toots. This won't put your username in the toot, but it /will/ mark your reply as part of a conversation.
Among other things, this makes it easier for others to follow what you're saying, if you're posting multiple toots in succession; all they have to do is click one toot and it'll expand the whole conversation thread.
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@noelle replies are also unlisted in public timelines i think?
or did they change that
maybe i should've tested before saying,,,,,,
but if it's not automatic then unlisting replies is also a thing you can do
@squirrel It's complicated because not every post that replies to another toot is formally An Reply; formal Replies don't show up in the public timelines but plain old threaded toots do.
Also, you can reply to a post and remove the usernames from it. This keeps the post threaded in the conversation but makes it NOT a reply to the OP, which means it won't show up in their mentions but WILL show up in your timeline for people who don't follow the OP.
This is useful for when you've boosted something and want to comment on it; your comment will appear to all of your followers even if they don't follow the OP.
Bonus: you can re-add the OP's username at the end to mention them!
A quirk to be aware of:
If you reply to someone else's toot without mentioning the author, you'll also need to boost yours afterwards if you want it to be delivered to your followers.
@daggertooth ...huh. I did not know that; I thought they got delivered to the public timeline. Good to know!
@noelle THat's what I was trying to say with my other message. @daggertooth
@noelle So toots don't appear in your timeline if they begin with an @ sign, regardless of whether it's a reply?
@remram44 Reply status is weird (and apparently weirder than I thought). Just having an @ in a toot doesn't make it A Reply, but (apparently) replying to a toot, even if you strip the @ out, makes it A Reply, so it won't show up on other people's Home timelines unless they're following the person you're replying to.
So you could start a new toot and @ me, and it wouldn't be a Reply to me - but you could reply to this and strip my @ out, and it /would/ be a reply even without my @.
@noelle It seems that Replies starting with @-myname still show up in my timeline, so do Replies starting with @-not-the-person-i-reply-to 🤔
Birdsite's rules where simpler (don't show tweets starting with @, which lead to the .@ weirdness)
@noelle unfortunately toots so threaded only show up in the "toots with replies" column, so it might be useful to add a (cont'd) or 🔜 or something to indicate that the first toot is part of a run
although that doesn't really help with that absolutely essential addendum you only think of 30 seconds after you clicked toot ;-)
@thamesynne Hm, not in any of the clients that I use, but that's good to know.
@noelle thanks for the tip!! 👍👍
@noelle Also, because it's your own toot it wont necessarily mark it as a reply either, and it will continue being showed in the Public Timeline. Unlike actual replies.