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Is there something about Mastodon and the Fediverse that you need help with?
Reply to me or send me a DM and I'll try to help if I can, or put you in touch with someone else who can help.
Don't worry if a question seems silly or obvious! The idea of this account is to especially help new people.
Most people I follow do an excellent job of posting, where 1 post=1 thought they have.
However, there are some people (including some people with lots of followers) who treat this place like a blog, who post looooong articles broken into, say, 20 or 30 posts (i.e. "Long post 1/30). I find that incredibly irritating. Short of temporarily muting them, is there a way to compress those series of posts so I just see the first post? Thanks.
There's nothing built in at the moment.
There's an open issue about this at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8615
I have replied to the issue to ask for an update and emphasised how this is causing people to mute accounts they actually enjoy reading.
Thanks for the reply. I ended up unfollowing the person who did this repeatedly.