As someone who never used Twitter, it seems like microblogs are like comments from a thread but the parent thread doesn’t exist and each top level comment is its own topic? Perhaps a roundabout way of thinking, but am I on the right track here?
You mean essentially your comment and this whole chain?
If you’re comparing to Reddit it’s like being on a megathread - topic is just the subreddit itself.
If you’re comparing to Twitter, then I think your logic makes sense
Thanks - the reddit analogy helps! The microblogging hasn’t been immediately obvious to me at least.
@C8H10N4O2 So to explain how twitter works real quick: they have “tweets” that are like a reddit comment (with pic/video option). They’re entirely unsorted, and you only see the ones from people you “follow”. They can be optionally tagged with “hashtags” like #tagexample #anothertag that people can search for. Mastodon is a fediverse version of twitter.
Here on kbin, we have two styles of content, threads which work like reddit, and then these “microblog” twitter style stuff. For these microblog posts, kbin tries to sort them into our magazines/subreddits automatically, but users on other fediverse sites do not necessarily see that grouping.
Microblog posts are standalone and associated with your account (people will follow you to see them). replies to such work as comment replies do on reddit/kbin threads.
The posts, even replies, can be “boosted” to reshare the post to your followers. This is how content is discovered: by boosting/resharing it (and then your followers see it). The “upvotes” we see for them here on kbin are actually “likes” which is sorta just a “I liked this” and has no effect on their visibility, unlike how upvotes affect the reddit/kbin threads in the feed.
