Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
Landmark legislation sees the Australian government committed to the novel step of child protection by banning social media for under sixteens.
I wholeheartedly and respectfully disagree. Social media focuses on following individuals, not topics. There is no incentive to follow or be followed on a forum, and being pseudonymous really kills the “social network” part of that definition.
Edit: typos
No, social media is media that is social
Media: a means of mass communication
Social: having to do with other people
This is a forum: a place if mass communication where the entire point is to share and comment with other people, aka social media
I’ve had this discussion with many people. Just because that’s how you define it, doesn’t mean that is how it’s actually defined. We aren’t talking about your definition, we are talking about a government’s decision.
I think it would be foolish to expect any governing or organization to classify sites/services like lemmy or reddit as something other than social media, when they are literally completely made up of users interacting which each other with all of the content being posted by users.
Also, you can argue about your definition all day, but the Australian government’s decision included Reddit, lemmy likely has not yet been affected due to the gov just not knowing of its existence.