Folder: About Social Media

Something like #HappyNewYear, it's a way to categorize posts on social media by including a text code in the body of the post that starts with an octothorpe (#) character (also called a "hash" or "number sign") and contains the name of the category without spaces.

Action available in social media, forums, chatrooms, and other online communities, that informs the system that you don't want to receive communication from a given user, nor see them in any form.

The various meanings of profile in a computer.

Webpage or equivalent that contains information about an user in a social network, forum, or other online community.

Another term for social media.

Another term for decentralized social media, with emphasis on the federation aspect (e.g. Fediverse).

A social media (social network) in which the users' data do not belong to only one central authority, but to various interconnected entities, such as Mastodon or Bluesky.

A page that shows information about that user to others users of that platform.

Something that someone published online, on a website, specially if it's part of a feed.

Term referring to the computer program responsible for picking recommended posts on social media, e.g. Youtube videos, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok posts, etc.