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submitted 1 year ago by EarlGrey07@kbin.social to c/ELI5@kbin.social

ELI5, what is the difference between a thread and a microblog on kbin?

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[-] losttourist@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@EarlGrey07 I'm no expert, but I think that the microblog is for quick, mostly text-only conversations. A bit like this one. You can think of it as being like a Twitter or Mastodon feed embedded within kbin.

The articles in the Threads thing are more Reddit-like.

The other thing is that a Magazine can be set up to auto-populate its Microblog feed based on specific hashtags. For example if it has been set up that way (and I don't know if it has, I'm not a moderator of this magazine) then /m/ELI5 could have hashtags set for #ELI5 or #ExplainLikeImFive and then any post, anywhere on the Fediverse, which uses any of those hashtags will magically appear in the microblog here.

[-] EarlGrey07@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@losttourist I see, that's quite helpful! I guess I can think of kbin as a hybrid of Reddit and Twitter? I'm not particularly familiar with using tags, but I can see that it would open up a lot of possibilities.

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