boredzo

Also @boredzo@mastodon.social.

Breaker of binaries. Sweary but friendly. See also @TheMatrixDotGIF and @boredzo-kitchen-diary.



I keep wanting to use the share-my-own-post-and-add-more feature the way I use replying to myself on Twitter and Mastodon. It doesn't really work here, though—the original post takes center stage and whatever comes after it is (often far) below the fold—and I need to break that habit.

The obvious replacements are “just don't do that; make a new post ex nihilo”, which establishes no connection to the context of the original post, or “edit the original post”, which is a little bit revisionist and doesn't surface the new content to followers.

Cohost doesn't really have a good answer for this yet. It seems more designed for posting finished, complete content.

(I don't remember how Tumblr addressed this. I never did become a particularly active Tumblr user, so 99% of my Tumblr experience is looking at screenshots posted on Reddit and later Twitter.)

Suggestions welcome.


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in reply to @boredzo's post:

I'm wondering about these things, too.

or “edit the original post”, which is a little bit revisionist and doesn't surface the new content to followers.

You could use the retweet "share this post" button on your own older post after editing it, which brings it back to the top.

And I guess you can link easily enough - but it's definitely not (yet?) a first class feature.

(And now you've got me thinking back to how threads, retweets, and quote-tweets were things people were doing on twitter long before twitter added UI/API support for them. Simpler, clumsier times 🙂)

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