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Cory Doctorow is just sitting on the Fediverse using it correctly "Your follow list is your job, you don't like it, stop following me" and people keep getting mad at him.

And honestly, I love it

Follows aren't endorsements or solidarity, they're "I want to read the things you say"
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@silverwizard People are getting mad at what exactly?
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
Long multiitem threads and high engagement essays
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@silverwizard Then don't follow him? I like his work but I don't follow him for this exact reason.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, and that's what he says to do
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Thank you for the elaboration!
Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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@Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard I do follow him because I like his work, but he's sharing it in a way that's hard to read.

I'm not mad at him, but if he wants people to read it, I think there are more effective ways he could post.

On the other hand, I'm also wondering if maybe Friendica could show those kind of threads in a different way.
@Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, he 100% could be doing longer posts which collapse, but it's 100% because he's ported twitter tooling, and improving it is work
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@mcv @hypolite With the character limits we have over here he could just put the whole blog post up at once, his current method is kind of a mess for this medium. I'm interested in hearing what he has to say but I don't know if I can manage what he's offering here.
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Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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@AGTMADCAT :verified: @Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard I guess he's doing it this way because it's tied to his posting on Twitter, so he uses the same format, considering Mastodon is supposed to be similar to Twitter.

But what if Twitter dies? Or he follows the Twitter exodus? Then it might make more sense to customise it more for this platform.
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@mcv @hypolite I was thinking that he's already putting it up on his website as a single blog post, so he could just grab that text chunk instead. Tooling re-use definitely makes sense though.
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Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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@AGTMADCAT :verified: @Hypolite Petovan @silverwizard Yeah, I should just see his Mastodon post as a cue to go to his blog and read it there. That's a better reading experience anyway.
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mike
mike  
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Cory’s linklog was one of the first feeds I followed and I quickly discovered that. Holy fuck, can that guy fill pages.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, it's a hell of a lot
Martijn Vos
Martijn Vos  
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@mike @silverwizard Is there anyone who follows him and for whom this way of posting works well? Because it would be a shame if he posts all these long threads and nobody reads it.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, that's 100% valid, and his "use RSS " response is 100% correct
Alexandre Oliva
Alexandre Oliva  
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I love his threads, FWIW
both content and form
the only thing that I'm finding annoying is people's insistence in "teaching" him how to do what he's already doing. I admire how cool he is about that. I'd have long lost it.
now, if I were in his shoes, I'd probably have scripted the thread-posting long ago, using some CLI tool such as toot. heck, I'd have written the script and shared it with him if I used Mastodon myself
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, his threads are usually good, but far better followed with RSS

And his gentle responses are definitely him being a class act

I am surprised he hasn't changed it to meet his needs - but very happy he is gently reminding people to manage their lives
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Yeah, needs to federate with a better codebase, but doing it the way he wants to
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