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• rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forums are social media though.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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      • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Interesting point. However, I think there are many anonymous account on Twitter, for example. Yet it is no different from others.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep. They just did not call it like that back then.

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    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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      • MxM111@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ask ChatGPT if Reddit is a social media. It will give you answer “yes”, while noting features that different from FB. ChatGPT is a good way to judge what is “usually” considered as this or that.

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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      • illi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        forums are a form of social media

        I guess I can’t really disagree with that

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s just like, you opinion, man.

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      • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think a good destiction would be social network and socical media. Media is about celeberty and making money. Network is about conections

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• ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Addiction has many forms.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Matrix then?

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