• tyler@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    I 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.

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      4 days ago

      You’re welcome to your whacky opinion. Just pointing out that it’s uniquely yours 🙂

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        4 days 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.

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          4 days ago

          You’re pretending most people wouldn’t call Reddit social media. That’s absurd.

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            2 days 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.

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              2 days ago

              Yes, yes, you’re a genius.