Friendica's quite a comfortable platform. I get the feeling I could get used to this pretty quickly - and it's compatible with a lot of existing apps for Mastodon and others.
I'm coming from the whole micro-blogging experience, and over the years I've fallen into this habit of using hashtags and numbered posts to chain long threads together to track certain topics. I felt Mastodon and others did this incredibly well compared to even Twitter so I fit right in.
How would I keep posts together along certain issues or topics here?
I'll point out that I see people chaining their posts together on Mastodon from my Friendica account. But those chained posts are indented further and further, much like an email. I suspect if I did the same with long standing chains of posts, the indents would eventually lose meaning.
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I don't quite get this, but if you mean to have them discovered more easily, you can also use hashtags, just like on Mastodon.
Yeah, it works more like the older type of social networks where there was a post and then the comments. Same as on Facebook, LinkedIn, the defunct Google+ etc.
And yeah, the threaded view is very useful in keeping the trace of the discussion. Along with those "in reply to" links next to the people's name.
Also, there's no reason for you to do the same threading thing. Mastodon servers display the full post, no matter how long, if it doesn't have a title (it doesn't play well with posts that have one. Writefreely has the same problem, but since it is seen more as a full-fledged blogging platform of sorts, people don't really care about it).