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The influx of Brazilian users to BlueSky was pretty public(1).

> 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

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/30/24232561/brazil-x-ban-sen...

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> The word is “post”.

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.

It is customary to learn the local slang for posts when you’re riding the information superhighway but in a pinch everyone knows what a post is, as it is the product that comes from the process of posters posting.

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.

This isn't even close to what they were asking. Sounds like they wanted some cross between "meme" and "self-fulfilling prophecy".

If somebody wants to interpret a mundane opinion online as some sort of arcane summoning incantation or volley of memetic warfare that is up to the reader, but “a ton of Brazilians signed up for bluesky” is generally accepted as fact and “it doesn’t seem like the fight with the Brazilian government really accomplished anything” is a pretty understandable opinion that doesn’t require a lot of mental gymnastics or bad faith to arrive at given public information.

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

Their second paragraph made it clear they were asking about the style of post, not the contents of that particular post.

“Speaking as if something is true” is how people often share opinions — especially mundane ones that a person wouldn’t expect to be picked apart

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41783394

Or just "conversation".

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