I currently use mbin and I like it because I like reddit-style social media, but for stuff from specific people and organizations microblog is sometimes better. I want to use the microblog part more (for example, make a post asking the Vivaldi account if there is any possibility of Vivaldi switching to a Firefox base instead of chromium. also I know it's not that easy no need to discuss that on this thread) but tbh I don't understand microblog stuff at all. in particular I want to know how I'm supposed to use @s and #s, and how I'm meant to interact with it. I know this seems kind of silly but I've never really used microblog-style social media until I got into the fediverse a couple months ago.

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago) (1 children)

Lol same I was all aboard for Mastodon then I realized it's just Twitter but good and I never actually liked twitter because it's so centered around random individuals and what they post, rather than what communities like as provided by them.

Everyone on here is equal, only the merit of content matters, but on twitter/mastodon it's just random influencer larpers screaming into the void until out the void comes some random guy who never existed before named soatok and weird empty eyed hivemind people stare confused about how you couldn't know this influencer/celeb who's apparently "well-known", it's so fucking weird man.

Thanks for inoculating me against celeb culture and this bizarre form of twitter individualism, early internets.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 minutes ago

Everyone on here is equal, only the merit of content matters.

lololololol. oh wow I'm crying. lolololol

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

@unknown1234_5@kbin.earth

First of all I think it would fit better in !mbinmeta@gehirneimer.de
To answer your question, MBin has "microblog" tab, when you open it you can see a text field, this is where text that you wanna write goes. To mention people you write @ username @ instance.name , like I wrote at the start of this message. You also have to choose a magazine, if you're unsure you can just choose "random".

[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 1 points 7 minutes ago

I didn't mean how to use the microblog feature, I meant how to interact with microblog content and how I should format it when I post it. also, even if the topic was how to use the feature, there is nobody in mbin meta.