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Can anyone explain to me what a Microblog is and how is it different from a thread? Are they similar to what a Toot is on Mastodon?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microblogging is tweeting, or tooting, or similar. Very short messages, usually from one person and directed to whomever happens to notice them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

A thread is a collection of comments from people replying to one another, usually organized in a tree structure. It's more like a conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s correct. Kbin offers both an ability to “toot” or an ability to create topical threads through its magazines

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Microblogging is the name for things like Twitter. You "blog" only small texts like the famous 160 characters of Twitter. A tweet or toot would be called micropost or just "status update". On microblogs you usually don't have threads but replies to a post. These replies and the initial post effectively form a thread but all the replies are also separate posts by the user.