@Gargron @taylorlorenz For many people the absence of typing Mastodon-threads in the web interface is identical to threads not being possible.

You have to manually reply to a previous post, you can't prepare a thread in the online interface.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz Thread in Mastodon are not obvious. What people want is to post pictures of their dog and ask for others' pictures of their dogs and then see that these replies exist in one glance.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz how do threads work? How do specify “this is a thread“ or “this is post one of eight“? I've seen people make it up, but nothing that looked like it was natively part of Mastodon.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz to the original post, it seems to not thread when posting via desktop? Or is weird? I've seen it inter-dispersed sometimes, but sometimes it's fine (as a viewer, haven't done it myself)?

@Gargron @taylorlorenz it's not very obvious that threads exist / how people should make threads (people often reply multiple times to the first tweet instead of replying to each previous tweet). This issue has a suggestion for making that better: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22884

@Gargron @taylorlorenz Threads suck. I used to block them on the bird site. I agree with Thomas from the quoted post that long-form writing should be posted elsewhere and linked to from Mastodon.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz how about allowing one extra long post per user per day. Easier to read than a bloody thread.

@Gargron The original poster was looking for a way / client to post a thread all at once, to avoid pauses and gaps between the related posts. (And contrary to what some have assumed, the OP did not want longer posts for this — they wanted the separation the individual posts yield, but that they were part of an overall whole. This was for their stories of library drop-in days; threads that I enjoyed reading elsewhere.)

@Gargron I think what people want is the ability to compose a whole thread and post everything together in one go.
Otherwise people with lots of followers may get some initial responses in the middle of the thread before they had the chance to post everything they wanted to express.

@taylorlorenz

@Gargron @taylorlorenz While there is certainly room for improvement, and improvements to threading do seem to be on the roadmap (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap), threading in Mastodon is actually pretty good.

Here is a pretty (...way too?) detailed explainer on how to thread in Mastodon:

Threading and Pinning >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#acad

#twittermigration #NewHere #help

@Gargron @taylorlorenz It’s not that Threads are missing. I understand that it’s the problem that threads not show up together - like for example Elk Web App is handling them. So all posts together of one thread. That’s an easier way to read for most, than 10 posts mixed into a timeline. Here a random example: @taylorlorenz , would it help if you use elk.zone ?