I’ve had this argument numerous times on here and I do not care to have it again, but I’m just going to say this. If you define lemmy and Reddit as social media, then you are defining almost the entire internet to be social media and this is the outcome. Governments will regulate that term, to include everything, and restrict almost all of your online activity in the process. That includes websites like GitHub, Amazon, and Wikipedia. It includes StackOverflow and the Git mailing list. It includes Google and PornHub and Netflix and Weather.com.
This is the inevitable outcome of defining social media to include forums…places of discussion. To define social media as sharing things. Stop defining lemmy and Reddit as social media and maybe things will get better. But at this point it will be hard.
I’ve had this argument numerous times on here and I do not care to have it again, but I’m just going to say this. If you define lemmy and Reddit as social media, then you are defining almost the entire internet to be social media and this is the outcome. Governments will regulate that term, to include everything, and restrict almost all of your online activity in the process. That includes websites like GitHub, Amazon, and Wikipedia. It includes StackOverflow and the Git mailing list. It includes Google and PornHub and Netflix and Weather.com.
This is the inevitable outcome of defining social media to include forums…places of discussion. To define social media as sharing things. Stop defining lemmy and Reddit as social media and maybe things will get better. But at this point it will be hard.
Yes, and the more they try to regulate, more people will move to dark net alternatives.