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Social Media Terms Dictionary

Why People Post the Link in the Comments on Facebook?

Explanation
People don't post link posts, they post image and video posts with a link in the comments, or link in bio, but why?
Why Platforms Support Short Video but Not Long Video?

Explanation
Nowadays, many websites and platforms support uploading short videos, such as TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, but almost none of them allow uploading longer videos, such as one hour long videos. Why does this happen?
List of Platforms that Became TikTok Clones

Reference
Social media that introduced a short video format and suffered TikTok-fication, or resisted it.
Note: Pinterest Limits Length of Alt Text

Reference
If you try to post an image on Pinterest you'll have the option to include alt text, but there is a character limit on how long the alt text is allowed to be.
Tags with Spaces

Definition
Tags that can have space characters ( ) in them.
Why Hashtags Can't Have Spaces

Explanation
Because the program that figures out where the hashtag starts and ends uses the hash sign (#) to figure out where the hashtag starts, and uses the space character ( ) to figure out where the hashtag ends.
Hashtag

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.
Block

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.
Profile

The various meanings of profile in a computer.
Profile Page

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

Another term for social media.
Federated Social Media

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

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.
User Profile

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

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

Things that are on the Internet, connected to the Internet, or that require an Internet connection to function.
The Algorithm

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