• quirzle@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    I hate that social media business news qualifies as “technology” these days.

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      1 month ago

      It doesn’t, but the mods (not just these ones, but of any technology community) never seem to remove posts that aren’t actually about technology.

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        Because the definition of what is and isn’t technology is arbitrary. Wikipedia says “Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.” By that definition, social media is a technology (uses knowledge of computers and networking to enable online communication), but also so are most human creations.