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Why do people chain post on microblogging platforms rather than link to a blog post? (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/26108835

I'll read long posts in either format, but the fragmented format of chained microblog posts, or threads, is mildly distracting at times.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I've done this a couple times. Some reasons off the top of my head:

  • The content was specific to Mastodon and the people following me there, so there wasn't much point posting it somewhere else.

  • It started off as a normal toot well within my server's character limit (1500, my server is awesome that way) but then I wanted to add more thoughts later without annoying everyone who already boosted the original.

  • The individual toots in a thread are sometimes posted quite far apart, but make sense to be viewed together, e.g. standalone progress updates on the same project.

Of course there are plenty people doing it just because the microblogging is the only tool they have so they have to make the content fit. But there's a few more potential reasons to add to the list.