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a-man-from-earth ,
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A post is like a tweet, and ends up in the Microblog. Other "posts" that use the hashtag will also end up there.

A thread is like a Reddit post, and is basically part of the main content of a "magazine" / sub / community.

anonymouse OP ,

Ahh ok. that clears up a lot. thank you!

shepherd ,
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Yeah, unfortunately the Threads app (by Meta) sure adds to the confusion here lmao.

On kbin.social, a thread is indeed like a reddit post, where you post content like links or pictures, and we all comment and discuss lol.

On Threads, that's a twitter competitor lmao, and Threads content would be comparable to what kbin calls "posts" lol. I'm so sorry lol.

anonymouse OP ,

oh this post has nothing to do with the Threads app by Meta. please refer to a-man-from-earth's comment.

curt ,

So how does one create a thread? I've made a few posts in the microblog and selected a magazine, but I never saw them appear in the Magazine.

anonymouse OP ,

There is a plus up in the top right group of icons. When you click it, it gives you options to choose from and asks if you want to make a thread, post, link,ect. Once you are in that page there is an option for what magazine you want it to go in. [FYI I have been using kbin for three days so I could be wrong.]

a-man-from-earth ,
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Go to the magazine that you want to create a thread in, hit the + in the top bar, and select "Add new link" or "Add new thread". There's also a select box for the magazine once you hit one of those.

For a microblog post, make sure to hit "Add new post" and again, there is a dropdown select box for the magazine. Also, you can add a hashtag to make the microblog post show up in various magazines.

ciferecaNinjo ,

This is my understanding as well, @a@kbin.social¹. And with this understanding, I concur with @anonymouse:

they made things overly complicated

Indeed. It’s not a meaningful separation particularly when the microblogs have no significant enforcement of being “micro”. The /feeling/ I get is that kbin threads (which are very poorly named as @s6original discovered) are for high effort often lengthy content with a graphic, formatting, and more thought-out content. But kbin supports formatting in both which makes them redundant.

I suspect if someone makes a lot of short off-the-cuff “threads” a moderator might want to have a word with them.

is a scatter-brained design.

(edit) footnote:

  1. woah, there’s a . I wrote “@ a-man-from-earth @ kbin.social” (no spaces) and kbin could not handle the hyphen, apparently.
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