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.
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.