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What distinguishes a thread from a microblog? (fedia.io)
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Cross posted from https://fedia.io/m/mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de/t/4407592

Hey everyone, very new to mbin. I used to have both a Lemmy and Mastodon account separately, so I'm familiar with the idea of threads and microblogs. However, on mbin I'm noticing microblogs can be posted to a magazine, and I've even seen microblogs from Lemmy users. How is that possible? I assumed the only people that could make microblogs were mastodon and mbin users. Also, if you can post a microblog to a magazine, what separates it from a thread? The only thing I can tell is that the app labels one as a thread and another as a microblog.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

you've probably figured htis out in 4 weeks, but I don't see a reply so I figured I'd document it for someone else.

A thread is posted to one magazine, while a microblog is posted to the whole fediverse.

To see your threads a user has to be subscribed to the magazine in question (or on some platforms at least one user on the remote instance does), while to see your posts a user has to follow @srasmus@fedia.io

So a new thread is a new lemmy (or Reddit) post, while a post is a new toot/tweet.

A lemmy user can't see the posts to your microblog, a mastodon user won't see your treads unless they "follow" the "user" @askmbin@fedia.io and it looks kind of janky, with every post/reply looking as if the magaize user is re-tooting it.

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