Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by hunter2_ on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:10AM
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Are message boards / BBS / forums?
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Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by danShumway on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:28AM
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Yes.
I don't want to be dismissive, if you have some kind of distinction you're trying to get at, I'm open to hearing it. But I personally don't see a big conceptual difference between Reddit and a forum, other than that one of them happened to get bigger. And I'm pretty skeptical of using size as a criteria here, because it would force us to say that Google+ and MySpace stopped being social media at some point when they dipped in popularity.
Re:Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms
by hunter2_ on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:59PM
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The distinction I was going for was things that predate the classification terminology. I guess there's no particular reason not to apply such classification retroactively, but it feels a bit weird considering that in the heyday of these technologies, few if any people referred to them as social media. Seems a bit like saying "let's stream some music" as you're loading up a CD player. Technically yes there is a stream of bits but it just seems silly to speak in such terms.