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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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