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Reddit has roughly the same business model as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Each of those sites are structured differently and come with different bells and wh
by gary_0 3y ago
Reddit has roughly the same business model as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. Each of those sites are structured differently and come with different bells and whistles, but essentially they all just ingest user content, inject ads and tracking, and shove it in your face. Isn't that social media?
HN, on the other hand, doesn't even have a business model of its own. It's a text-only discussion board running on a couple servers.
- The_Colonel 3y agoFor me "social" suggests that people use it to "socialize". Keep contact with old friends, find new ones etc. Reddit or Hacker News don't fit into that category for me. If we say that any website with user generated content is "social media", then half of the web is that and the term kind of loses meaning.