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.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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/kbin-related stuff. Unofficial, not moderated by devs (yet). Official ones: /m/kbinMeta /m/kbinDesign **All official /kbin magazines in one collection**
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Ahh ok. that clears up a lot. thank you!
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.
oh this post has nothing to do with the Threads app by Meta. please refer to a-man-from-earth's comment.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
A post is what you created to ask your question. Unless someone else commented while I was typing, this is the first comment in your post's thread. So the thread is the comment list for your post.
With respect to kbin terminology, this is the wrong answer.
My apologies.