Comment on Is This Social Media?
tyler@programming.dev 2 days 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 2 days ago
You’re welcome to your whacky opinion. Just pointing out that it’s uniquely yours 🙂
tyler@programming.dev 1 day 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 1 day ago
You’re pretending most people wouldn’t call Reddit social media. That’s absurd.
tyler@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Thankfully I think most people are idiots who wouldn’t be able to name what their operating system is so I also don’t give one shit what they think Reddit is either. Turns out most of the population can’t use a dictionary or we wouldn’t be calling idiots Nimrods.