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Having used Twitter threads and a Mastodon instance with a limit of 8000 characters, I have to say that the latter actually makes me less verbose. Due to the pe
by hnbad 3y ago
Having used Twitter threads and a Mastodon instance with a limit of 8000 characters, I have to say that the latter actually makes me less verbose. Due to the per-message character limit and the widespread use of quote-retweeting I felt like I had to make sure every tweet was defensible in isolation so tweet threads just turn into the most mundane one-liners so there's still enough room in each to provide context. Twitter's threading UI also only supports standalone tweet threads and does nothing to help with composing multi-tweet replies so those often go out of order eventually and people will reply to individual tweets rather than the end of each sub-thread.