On: Mastodon Exit Interview

[cassianoleal]

> the latter is the common sense.

Common to whom?

[lifthrasiir → cassianoleal]

Most Internet users who have used Facebook and likes? (And even I, who never have used Facebook, primarily use that sense.) It is the first sense in the Cambridge dictionary [1], the second sense in the Oxford dictionary available via Google Search, and the second sense and also the first non-academic sense in Wiktionary [2]. It is clearly common enough for me to say so.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/social-n...

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/social_network

[cassianoleal → lifthrasiir]

From Cambridge:

> a website or computer program that allows people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or mobile phone

From Wiktionary:

> A network of personal or business contacts, especially as facilitated by social networking on the Internet.

In which sense do either of those fail to describe Mastodon?

[mattashii → lifthrasiir]

Yes, but even if you take the first definition of the Oxford or the second of Wiktionary, then still would Mastodon be a Social Network, as it does match both descriptions.