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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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?

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I suppose those would. I wouldn't have thought it, but definitionally, it would be! I mean, heck, some of those are listed by Meriam-Webster! Isn't language neat? You learn something new every day.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/social%20media

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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)

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My tiktok account is also anonymous.

[–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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”.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

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