The term is quite over used in my opinion, it is very often used in hyperbole. Whether it is in terms of popularity and driving traffic to a website or a threat said to break the Internet, it doesn’t seem to live up to the meaning of the term.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      In my defence, internet was setup to share information, openly. That’s broken now.

      It’s ruined as well, but you’re right, semantics is important.