At least for me, though, microblogging on the Fediverse kinda misses the thing that makes Twitter interesting.
I don’t really want to microblog. And I don’t really like following individuals, the microblog model.
But for certain things, Twitter’s search engine – it can do full-text search – is extremely useful – anything someone puts in immediately is indexed and the whole thing can be searched. Combine that with retweets, and it’s a really powerful tool to find new content that someone is putting up. Reddit has a community-centric approach, which is great if you want to talk about a given topic over time. But for more-transient situations – say, a national disaster – Twitter does a great job of pulling lots of readers and people posting content together very quickly.
Micro blogging, full profile / post /msg federation. Follow among leminals n mastodon
Kbin has microblogging.
At least for me, though, microblogging on the Fediverse kinda misses the thing that makes Twitter interesting.
I don’t really want to microblog. And I don’t really like following individuals, the microblog model.
But for certain things, Twitter’s search engine – it can do full-text search – is extremely useful – anything someone puts in immediately is indexed and the whole thing can be searched. Combine that with retweets, and it’s a really powerful tool to find new content that someone is putting up. Reddit has a community-centric approach, which is great if you want to talk about a given topic over time. But for more-transient situations – say, a national disaster – Twitter does a great job of pulling lots of readers and people posting content together very quickly.