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I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
by rsync 10mo ago
I don’t consider hacker news to be social media… And I wouldn’t expect others to, either.
- perihelions 10mo agoFor what it's worth, HN is on ICE's list of surveilled sites (which it pays a tech contractor to crawl), https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/ https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-co... ("The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring") https://archive.is/Lldzh https://archive.is/Lldzh
- bell-cot 10mo agoI'd bet the actual list of surveilled sites is far longer, and actually kept secret.
- workfromspace 10mo agoHere's the actual list from the article for anyone like me (404media has paywall and archive.is doesn't work from Baltics): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH4D_HHefoYxnbGL9l02kyCus https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VyAaJaWCutyJyMiTXuDH...
- SAI_Peregrinus 10mo agoWhy not? Anything where user interaction is a primary portion of the site's content is social media. The term "social media" predates algorithmically-driven parasocial feeds, though it does postdate things like BBSes and PHPBB.