How is this different from subreddits?
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great observation!
this will be a part of our subreddit spec, but theres a subtle difference:
you might not want to post a topical microblog to a subreddit. also subreddit posts have titles, etc. you will be able to create both types of posts simply by adding a title or not. The latter is posting to a group for all to see, the former is just for your followers.
still working through the UX on this, but they are subtly different things.
This is still a rough sketch from our last meeting though, things may change. This was just a first pass based on a long discussion.
These were originally separate ideas that we are trying to umbrella under the same spec, so we may simply this further.