| ▲ | drnick1 20 hours ago | |
HN is not "social media," in a conventional sense, far from it. For one, it is completely anonymous, at least if you want it to be. | ||
| ▲ | davb 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
But under Ofcom rules, it is social media if we are to assume that they’ll apply the same scoping as the Online Safety Act does for user-to-user services. I think a lot of comments here assume that only sites like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter/X would be in scope, but I see no reason why they wouldn’t use the same definitions from the OSA (essentially any site where user-to-user communication and content posting takes place, including forums and aggregators). | ||
| ▲ | pyb an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
If Reddit is "social media", so is HN. | ||
| ▲ | Natfan 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
hn is a user-to-user service | ||