Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months agoHe says, on a social media platform
Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months agoHe says, on a social media platform
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Lemmy is a message board, not social media. Like fark or something awful.
webadict@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Users create and/or share content, check. Users discuss content, check.
Unless you think something is missing from that definition, Lemmy is social media. It is pseudonymous, but it is still social because of the users.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Since when did that define social media? That’s the same thing as IRC. is IRC social media?
webadict@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I suppose those would. I wouldn’t have thought it, but definitionally, it would be! I mean, heck, some of those are listed by Meriam-Webster! Isn’t language neat? You learn something new every day.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social media
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is social media, just because your talking anonymously doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting socially. Jesus Christ your talking to people. Right now. Your being social media’d. Stop acting like your above it.
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My tiktok account is also anonymous.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Undoubtly, especially since I haven’t taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.
But as I said in a comment below, I’m more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No it isn’t.
When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:
Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.
Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.
Vespair@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Cool dude, you’ve identified that big corporations data farm.
Random bloke user with a vendetta still doesn’t know who I am, and that’s who I’m more worried about on the personal scale.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bruh.