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What is the difference between a post and thread? (kbin.social)

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

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yo idk if this is the right place to put this, so sorry if it's not. Iv been really trying to figure this place out and honestly it feels like they made things overly complicated. I understand the magazines and the federated stuff I guess, maybe. But what the hell is the difference between posts and threads. Also I have noticed that sometimes I go into a magazine that says it has posts and threads and there is nothing there. Just need a little help. I don't want to go back to reddit.

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[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

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.

#kbin is a scatter-brained design.

(edit) footnote:

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