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Why do you view FB, IG, TikTok, Snapchat as “not-Internet”? (archive.today)
1 point by cnst on Oct 21, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Idiotic. Do these sites use some other network that they built themselves? No, they use the internet. They are not part of the web. Is that what the question is supposed to be?


These sites are absolutely part of the Internet. They aren't (or are only loosely) part of the web, in the same way as Intranets.




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