Comment on Is This Social Media?
tyler@programming.dev 19 hours agoI don’t give one shit what Wikipedia says. I’ve argued this on here before. Wikipedia’s definition includes every website on the planet because of how wide ranging and useless of a definition it is. Defining social media in that way makes the meaning useless and only serves politicians who want to block things they dislike on the internet. Essentially “social media” == internet to them.
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 18 hours ago
You’re welcome to your whacky opinion. Just pointing out that it’s uniquely yours 🙂
tyler@programming.dev 14 hours ago
But it’s not. Someone edited wikipedia to put a definition only cited in one business article from 2010. It was never the common definition until news companies started calling anything they didn’t understand “social media” because it became a catch all. Forums aren’t social media.
null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 14 hours ago
You’re pretending most people wouldn’t call Reddit social media. That’s absurd.