Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

• 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.

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Since when did that define social media? That’s the same thing as IRC. is IRC social media?

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    • 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

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    • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

      • Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.[2][5]
      • User-generated content[2][5]
      • User-created self profiles[2][7]
      • Social network formed by connections between profiles,[2][7] such as followers or groups

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• 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.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My tiktok account is also anonymous.

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  • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.

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    • 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.

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  • 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”.

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    • 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.

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Cool dude. Well you said your account is anonymous, and it isn’t. Words mean things.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bruh.

  forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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