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 20 hours agoNo, it is a social network. That’s different from social media.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
poVoq@slrpnk.net 18 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.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Social networking is about connecting people
Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 hours 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
Waryle@jlai.lu 18 hours 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.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
Every definition is “made up” 🙄
What I explained is how these terms are commonly used on the fediverse.
And anyways, if “social media” and “social network” is the same, why have two different terms for it?
Magnum@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
Its not a car, its a vehicle!