but the media is not the service, that's what it's providing, access to the media

social media rightly understood is social intermediaries, because they almost all are like "trust me bro" this person published that note

on nostr, the note itself can be verified, and it can be conveyed by any relay, paid or not

social media is media in the same way as tv channels are media not in the way that a blank canvas and paints and paintbrushes are painting media

they are publishers, masquerading as content, literally