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At some point drift in language will change the definition of "social media" from the former definition of trying to profit off users self-generated content, to the modern "in practice" definition of a for-profit heavily politically censored propaganda channel.

So, no, under the old def HN was never about becoming trillionaires by selling our accts to google or whatever. And under the new definition HN has intense political leanings but is still primarily technical in nature and doesn't censor as much as Reddit or other fundamentalist or inquisition like as sites.