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		baxtr on Dec 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off So does this mean you wouldn’t qualify HN as social media?

moffkalast on Dec 29, 2022 | [–]

Reddit and HN are more in the subgroup of what you could call antisocial media.

pmontra on Dec 30, 2022 | [–]

Not in the way Facebook or TikTok are social media. HN's dynamics make it closer to forums from last century or Usenet IMHO. Strictly speaking almost everything is a social media, even WhatsApp and Telegram which I use daily.

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