ah! I found a setting that fixes my problems with auto-collapsed posts. Click the "app settings" button, then go to "collapsed toots" and check the "give collapsed toots an image background" box. Here's what the result looks like: (hope @Lioness doesn't mind my using her posts as an example! She's just the one on my watch list who posts long posts a lot.) https://awoo.space/media/HbzE3r7gbBj7mDNLJ-E https://awoo.space/media/5k2h85_jYtDsGR8HT08 https://awoo.space/media/ORlFWiI7h2omN_TESis https://awoo.space/media/whcd6eiD1--cN3oc22E