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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.