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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨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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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • Waryle@jlai.lu ⁨16⁩ ⁨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.

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨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?

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      • GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are lot of synonyms, people just choose some words in different contexts based on how they sound. Why use the word “begin” when the word “start” exists?

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