The definition you quoted comes from a 2010 business paper that literally states that it includes blogs. So yes, it does, because that’s where all these business and political morons got the definition.

If you create a website, then you are sharing content. And if people read that content then you have created a network. That’s the “definition” according to the government.

But that’s not what social media ever meant. Honestly I’m not going to argue this again, if you really want to see the true nexus of what social media was and is you can read my previous comments on the matter. I’m sure you can find them in my profile.

Suffice to say, social media is an incredibly narrow subset of social networks and the internet isn’t a social network though it is a “network where people are social”.

Good to know!

Oh sweet.

Well then you can drive just fine like that.

Nah, you just speed up then slam on the brakes to open it, then you can close it as you said.

I thought it was only voice though. Not screen share or chat.

And by that definition you include every website on the planet. Your blog, the comment section of your local news, etc.

Just because you think that news sites comment sections aren’t included doesn’t mean that definition doesn’t include it, cause it does. That applies to that entire definition.

Did you study it in kindergarten and nowhere else? Because whether or not your lungs are “self cleaning” or not has absolutely nothing to do with how dangerous smoking is.

I want to know what application is running.

Sure it’s in the dock!

I want to find a specific application window.

Go fuck yourself right to hell.

right click them, but you’re a programmer, why do you even care about the dock at all, you should hide it and use hammerspoon to make your system more suited for you.

Wait, the taskbar doesn’t show the running windows, like it does on every other OS? It’s at least discrete right?

well this is just wrong. On windows and KDE Plasma it definitely shows just the running application. You can hover over it and get a ridiculously long list of windows but that’s honestly just as bad as mac. They’re both bad solutions. Either you right click and get a list of text you have to remember, or you get a picture of the window that you have to scroll (I usually have way more windows open than this)

It discretely takes up 1.5cm of the bottom of the screen at all times. It’s so discrete it doesn’t even need to use the corners.

you can disable this… like, what even is this complaint. You can literally hide it just like you can on windows. You can actually resize it easier than windows, you just grab it and drag! You can set the size programmatically (defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 42 sets the size to 42 pixels) or completely disable it or set it to hide, like seriously? this is your complaint? https://mikefrobbins.com/2025/05/07/customize-and-automate-a-clean-macos-dock-layout/#dock-preferences

Yeah of course just that bottom inch or so … And a top of screen system level menu bar to display what windows does in the bottom corners.

you can also set this to hide…

/sigh/ ok, fine, I just want to be able to full screen a window and still see what else is open.

Burn in hell and die.

click the plus button while holding option. it’s not hard. You can probably even applescript it or use BTT or Hammerspoon to make it so that it always works that way, but once again, why are you clicking buttons manually? For me to fullscreen an app I click alt+r space to make it fullscreen with no distractions, and for the windows way it’s alt+r f.

I want to be able to easily switch left and right between open windows.

Go full screen or I will shoot you.

I can’t tell if these are jokes or not.

I want to move an open window into the other monitor.

You can’t because you’re full screen dumbass.

you literally can. it’s the same as rearranging any other space. I can think of no less than three separate ways to do this.

I want to let a window present a popup like they normally do.

You can’t because youre full screen dumbass. Why would you be full screen?

FINALLY a REAL FUCKING PROBLEM. holy shit how did it take this long for you to mention something that is actually an issue with mac.

I want an application like Slack to be able to popup and remove notifications when is appropriate.

Choose to have every single notification persists on screen until you manually remove it, or miss all your notifications.

This is a choice of the developer.

Can’t we trouble you for something in between, where we trust an application and let it manage them in a way that makes sense based on their context?

You can trouble me for something in between these cheeks, shit stain.

so yeah you literally don’t know how it works. it literally is the developer’s choice for how long a notification stays up and if it is persistent or not.

How about this. Go try out Hammerspoon, go try out AltTab. If those are too difficult for you then use BetterTouchTool (though that costs money). Your problems are nonexistent besides the single qualm about the popups not showing for ‘true fullscreen’ apps. But you don’t like fs apps anyway! So don’t use them!

I have tailscale set up. I’m not gonna have my wife be using tailscale. And I’m also not going to be using tailscale all the time. I even have an exit node on my server.

Can you give an example of the sort of regulation a social media site should need to follow which Amazon should be exempt from? Or the sort of rule that should bind reddit and Facebook but not Amazon?

A better question is what sort of legislation should apply to every website on the planet, without exception. Because that’s what the current definition does, makes the law so broad as to be pointless. Why are laws being passed that affect every website, when the problem is a few very massive websites.

It’s a forum. Just like all the other forums before it. It just happened to get very popular. To be clearer: if you define Reddit as social media then you are including almost every single website on the planet. It makes the definition completely pointless.

Regulations shouldn’t be defined in this way.

I’m just going to repeat myself for the hundredth time here. This is exactly what happens when you define words in such broad terms. Social media does not include things like discord. It doesn’t include Reddit, it doesn’t include Lemmy. But because so many damn people just refer to any site that they can talk with other people on as social media, it became enshrined in law and now literally every service you touch is legally defined as social media.

This is not hyperbole; with the current definitions across numerous countries, Amazon (the place where you buy things, not other services like games) is legally defined as social media.

Words mean things and when words are hijacked for other purposes it allows governments to strip away your rights without you realizing.

Air tags use UWB radio, not Bluetooth.

Simple: “do you trust Amazon to not give away private pictures of you getting home late at night or leaving early in the morning? What happens when Amazon thinks that you’ve committed a crime you know you haven’t? Your own devices will be used against you, your friends, and your family. It isn’t if, but when.”

There are studies. Hence the multiple cheating scandals, because we know how small of a change can massively affect your flight. Here’s one:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12611860/

Changing the suit circumference by +2 cm increased the lift area (𝐶𝑙⁢𝐴) by ∼5% and the drag area (𝐶𝑑⁢𝐴) by ∼4%. This was simulated to change the jump length by 5.8 m, which corresponds to an increase of 2.8 m/cm in suit tolerance, for a reference jump of 130 m

2.8 meters for every increase in a single centimeter of circumference.

Well I’m not gonna bother turning off any of the layers when I’m out and about. Like, my laptop still needs ublock when I’m not at home. And the vpn is just for certain use cases.

And yet the (modern) Olympics existed for decades without ads. You’ve been tricked into thinking they’re necessary. They are not. Life would exist just fine without them.

What if you have a multi layered ad blocking setup where you’re using ublock origin and pi.hole and a VPN with blocking?

Every additional centimeter of circumference on your suit gives you almost ten extra feet of distance. It’s insane.