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• FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends. Everyone claims they are on social media platforms to stay in touch with family and friends. I know no one on here and am fine with the anonymity. So it’s up to you if you count this.

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I personally never counted Reddit and am not counting Lemmy as a social media. Both Reddit and Lemmy are just a really huge forum which contains many subforums.

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    • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Forums are social media though.

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      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, but I think the big difference is that social media in the way of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc are tied to your identity IRL and include people that you actually know IRL, therefore are almost an extension of your life, whereas lemmy, reddit, and other iterest-specific forums have to option of decoupling from real life.

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        By that definition Social Media was invented in the 80s with the BBS (so pre-internet, using modems).

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      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re missing the point for pedantry. Call it what you want, lemmy is a helluva lot different than Facebook in many ways and we all know this.

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      • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Everything is everything if you squint enough. You have to look past the meaning of the words and look at the context - social media is usually considered to be FB, Insta, TikTok, Xitter.

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    • illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is how I see it as well. Though Reddit ws certainly trying to become social medium I feel - which was one of the reasons that helped me leave

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      • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, Reddit was always considered social media. Social media managers have had Reddit in their job description for over ten years. I know because I hired some as early as 2010.

        Social media did not start with Facebook like most people assume. Facebook is simply what brought social media into the mainstream. Usenet and forums are a form of social media that many of us old nerds have been using since the 90s.

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  • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But you are still socializing with us despite not knowing our real names, so this and Reddit would definitely qualify as social platforms. Twitter was also mostly anonymous for its 16 years prior to Elon, and it is definitely always been considered social media.

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  • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Addiction has many forms.

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  • uis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Matrix then?

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• Alto@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In tbe strict sense, probably. In what most people would call social media, probably not.

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