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I would say "social media" is a site that is trying to monetize your data, and using convenience as a lure to get you to give it your data to monetize. ("Data"
by pdonis 7mo ago
I would say "social media" is a site that is trying to monetize your data, and using convenience as a lure to get you to give it your data to monetize. ("Data" here includes everything you post there.)
- jacquesm 7mo agoI would say social media is any website where the connections between the participants are as important or even more important than the content. As soon as you get 'followers' it is game over.
- alephnerd 7mo ago> As soon as you get 'followers' it is game over. This is already happening on HN now via HackerSmacker [0]. I've found a couple HN users who have that have apparently been using it to follow and target me with comments whenever I post. [0] - https://hackersmacker.org/ https://hackersmacker.org/
- jacquesm 7mo agoHighly annoying. Hn should block that thing from linking.