Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator.
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Turns out Donald Trump isn't the only world leader with a tech billionaire "first buddy" who gets to serve as an unaccountable, self-interested de facto business regulator. UK PM Kier Starmer has just handed the keys to the British economy over to Jeff Bezos.
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@pluralistic please, you can hide the other parts of your thread and not spam the whole thread in the timeline. Or ask your admin to bump up the character limit of the instance.
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While intuitively it seems like this is how "unlisted" works, I assure you, that is not how it works, You've been given misinformation so pervasive that it constitutes the fediverse's first urban legend.
Here's an explanation of how unlisted works, how threading works, and how to manage threads in your timeline:
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@pluralistic @Difficile I refer you to this github issue on the mastodon code adeptly called "the doctorow problem":
[The Doctorow Problem] Fold toots in a thread, only display some of them in timeline · Issue #8615 · mastodon/mastodon
Currently, when someone composes several tweets in a thread, this quickly swamps the timeline: This is undesirable, especially when the topic is not interesting to me. Twitter has (in my opinion) implemented a fairly nice way to circumve...
GitHub (github.com)
We've been begging for a way to "fold" subtoot threads out of the main timeline, but as yet no movement on this issue...
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