@blindcoder There's currently no direct way to do this, or for the poster to hide their self-replies.Usually the best solution is for the person posting essays to use a server or platform that has extremely long character limits, which automatically hides most of the post in Mastodon.If you are following Cory Doctorow, he has a workaround by using a specific phrase in each post of his self-replies. You can use Mastodon's Filters to detect this phrase (more info https://fedi.tips/filtering-your-timeline-to-hide-posts-on-mastodon/).