"We will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X. We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."
https://buff.ly/4hLmYHe
It just means Twitter-style posting. Twitter came up when "blogs" were becoming a big deal, but its character limit meant it was like a "micro"-sized format of blogs. This is all from well before it had features like quote tweets, replies, and all that.
Wow I forgot all about mastodon. Does anyone use that at all? Or are we seeing a tower of Babel moment with social media?
Honestly they should just come to Hexbear
I use mastodon sparingly but that is largely because I don't like micro-blogging.
toots.matapacos.dog
This is a pretty good left-leaning server on there.
I will say though mastodon largely is a liberal site. Most servers are full of those who left twitter sooooo...
If you like micro-blogging though it is the best alternative. Free and open source, and federated.
edit: wording
What does micro-blogging mean? Is it different from what we do here?
It just means Twitter-style posting. Twitter came up when "blogs" were becoming a big deal, but its character limit meant it was like a "micro"-sized format of blogs. This is all from well before it had features like quote tweets, replies, and all that.
I make a shitpost on mastodon about once a month.
toots.matapacos.dog
I want this to be a real url
It is
okay hold on
https://toots.matapacos.dog
I feel seen