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    He says, on a social media platform

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      Lemmy is a message board, not social media. Like fark or something awful. You have no idea who the duck i am. How is that social?

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        Users create and/or share content, check. Users discuss content, check.

        Unless you think something is missing from that definition, Lemmy is social media. It is pseudonymous, but it is still social because of the users.

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          Since when did that define social media? That’s the same thing as IRC. is IRC social media?

          ICQ had message boards where people would chat about the news. Was that social media?

          Again, fark is a place where people share content and discuss the news. Is that social media?

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        It is social media, just because your talking anonymously doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting socially. Jesus Christ your talking to people. Right now. Your being social media’d. Stop acting like your above it.

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        Bruh.

        forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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        My tiktok account is also anonymous.

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          Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.

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            Undoubtedly, especially since I haven’t taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

            But as I said in a comment below, I’m more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.

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          No it isn’t.

          When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

          Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

          Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

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            Cool dude, you’ve identified that big corporations data farm.

            Random bloke user with a vendetta still doesn’t know who I am, and that’s who I’m more worried about on the personal scale.

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              Cool dude. Well you said your account is anonymous, and it isn’t. Words mean things.