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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lemmy is social media

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  • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, it is a social network. That’s different from social media.

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    • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What would you define social media as?

      Oxford says.

      websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

      That definition certainly matches Lemmy.

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      • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Social networking is about connecting people, which Lemmy as a forum does. You could argue that the function of Lemmy as a link aggregator is more social media like, but I doubt people would consider an RSS feed reader to be social media either.

        Social media is like TV, a one-to-many medium, usually with some sort of feed curation to promote certain topics.

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