alt Hacker NewsHN 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.
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.
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).