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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its not a car, its a vehicle!

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a difference between the two terms as well, so thanks for supporting my point /s

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Waryle@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a totally made up definition from your part. Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary”. A social media is just the middleman that allows people to socialize. Lemmy is a social media, as well as a social network.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have never heard anyone refer to TV as social media, I have always heard it in context with facebook, twitter and co.

        a better objection, which makes me uncertain whether lemmy is social media, is that this is a pseudonymous forum where its not common for users to become friends or know each other, and discussion is not around a specific news site or a specific person, but around specific topics

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Social networking is about connecting people

        Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.

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• Fedditor385@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are right. According to the definition of social media, Lemmy is social media. However, “social media” would by definition fit any kind of digital communication media. A forum, or a blog, or an IRC channel are also, by definition, social media.

  I would argue that the social media has a distinct association with Facebook, Instagram and the diverse spawns of those, and by association doesn’t fit anything else. At best, we simply lack a different term, which splits “old-school” stuff like forums and blogs. I view lemmy more like a forum. You have categories, and users can go into categories to start discussions. You don’t follow anyone. People also don’t create and post their own content, but rather seek discussions or share other stuff from the internet. It is social media, but it’s definitely nothing like Facebook.

  We simply lack a better term.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would definitely call a forum or IRC channel social media.

    I wouldn’t consider blogs social media unless they had a very active comments section.

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    • Fedditor385@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Media is more audio, video, image. Which fits social media.

      Most forums and blogs are text-based or primary text. There is no blog sharing only images/videos/audio as posts. Also no such forum.

      That would be my key differentiation - forums and IRC is social, but not really media.

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      • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Printed media is definately media, and so are blogs. The social part of it is how people can interact with it.

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the social part? I change my name daily, and dont really give a shit about people following me.

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  • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Its social because you’re interacting with other people

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    • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. I am reading an aggregation forum, and getting clarity and insights from the comments. I barely am interacting with anyone.

      Look, this term didn’t even exist until the mid 90’s and didn’t take off in common use until the mid 2000’s.

      The difference is Lemmy is topic centered thread first, discussion last, where social media is basically a self publishing, identity first platform. People put shit on instagram and facebook because it is about them (mostly). Here it is just news/stories with comments. And anonymity, which is what makes it all work.

      I consider everyone here the same way I did when I was on a bbs: they are liars. Modern twist: they are liars and bots. Everyone is bullshitting and saying whatever they want, this is hardly a social event.

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      • irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So is twitter not social media if you just use it to read hashtags, and get clarity and insight from the comments?

        Other social media sites can very much be topic centered

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