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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by fc417fc802 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:58AM (#46957039)
I was also there. We (ie the people I interacted with) called myspace social media and considered discussion forums to be a specialized subset of social media.

We also considered myspace to be a social network (due to the friend graph) while forums were not.

The chans were a weird almost edge case. I think they qualify as social media but the lack of persistent identities significantly changes the dynamics (obviously).

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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by Gud on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:20AM (#46959358)
Nobody called a phpBB forum “social media” 20-25 years ago.

Nobody.

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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by Izkata on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @08:31AM (#46959469)
Not only did we do it back then, scroll around this thread - it's still a thing today, people are calling HN "social media".
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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by trashb on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:30AM (#46962296)
As far as I know chans are always considered "image boards" and they are usually distinct by the fact that the information is "pushed off" the board after a time or amount posted afterwards.
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Re:Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally by fc417fc802 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @03:51PM (#46966714)
Image boards, which are a subset of forums, which are a subset of social media.
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