Twitter has two options, reply and reference, Mastodon only has 1, reply. I propose to use
^^^ at the very beginning of a toot as a custom toot flavor of Markdown that will indicate the "reply" is actually a "Reference to" And will then render in a thread tab as a "Thread" toot view Oldest to Newest, so you can read a thread in the order it was written.
Twitter has two options, reply and reference, Mastodon only has 1, reply. I propose to use
^^^ at the very beginning of a toot as a custom toot flavor of Markdown that will indicate the "reply" is actually a "Reference to" And will then render in a thread tab as a "Thread" toot view Oldest to Newest, so you can read a thread in the order it was written.