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> What's the word for posts like these online?
The word is “post”. When someone writes a thing and puts it online with or without a supporting body of evidence they are engaged in posting.
For example you have posited without evidence that there is a need for a special word for a post without evidence. I don’t know if that claim is true or false but it is, undoubtedly, a post
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232561/brazil-x-ban-sen...
Most posts on reddit aren't called posts. They're called comments. And nobody called posts on Twitter "posts" either. They were tweets.
If you go around talking about a website's posts, and the people who use the website call them something else, you're going to sound uninformed.
Sticking to fundamentals can be good when for example a literal insane person tries to tell you that an Xer Xes Xs on X. That’s just not true, nobody believes that wording is right.
It’s just a post. Somebody posted their opinion on the internet. What it becomes inside a specific reader’s mind is neither here nor there
It appears as though GP found the word they were looking for, and would like to call that post a “prayer for the downfall of Elon Musk”… so I’m going to guess that the question was a weird attempt to mask a fandom complaint as a heady question about language, because “Why don’t we have a special word for when people aren’t as nice to Elon as I want them to be?” would sound downright insane
Although I'm not sure sigmar's observation fits this criteria as it's a discussion of events that already happened, or that it will be disseminated enough to change the future if you consider it as a prediction of future events should some other widely substitute service cross the Brazilian courts.
Ex-Twitter wasn't the first service to get blocked in Brazil. Brazilians know from experience that if the service they use gets blocked, they should look for a similar service that's not blocked, and get on with their life. When the one they used comes back, they often go back, but it probably depends on relative merits. If you're a competing service, it's a great way to get a lot of exposure, but sometimes the load is too much and you leave a poor impression.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749129
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750564
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11614116
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039504
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123544
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123544
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645840
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11624808
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35722298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34527608
And it’s a fact that Musk lost Brazilian revenue, gained nothing and that some percentage of users would’ve switched to Bluesky, Threads etc. during the block.
I quoted the expert from the article speaking of twitter's lost revenue and there's a link about people turning to bluesky also in the article.
> people didn't download bluesky
1 people? 5 people? 10,000,000 people?
I'm sure some people downloaded Bluesky. What % of Twitter users went to Bluesky and never came back? In the long run, probably not a huge amount?
Everybody wants to pray for the downfall of Elon Musk.
They're trying to "meme it into existence".