My initial thought was for them to start their own posts in a news community and then provide their own thread of comments within that post. This way they wouldn’t have to do anything different from mastodon but both platforms would get to see their threads.
But then, it seems news communities like World News on Lemmy.world kind of have rules against posts to social media content. Maybe an exception could be made for this person because they are constantly citing primary sources.
Otherwise I’m not sure what else would be the best spot for such a thing.
Any suggestions?
They shouldn’t. They should have a blog and share the link here and on Mastodon. Social media is not the right place for long-form content.
Yea, sorry, hard disagree.
Social media, let alone the fediverse, isn’t one thing. Nor is it static or ever has been fixed.
Plenty of stuff around here is long form. And it can work great.
These threads aren’t opinion pieces. They’re news on new and breaking things. Quite appropriate for social media.
Both the “Chat” view and the ability to collapse threads make this platform good at handling long threads.
WriteFreely would be a good federated solution to this.