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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rikudou@lemmings.world 11 months agoI 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.
illi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
illi@lemm.ee 11 months ago
forums are a form of social media
I guess I can’t really disagree with that
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s just like, you opinion, man.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 11 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
ericisshort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I completely disagree with your definition of “media.” There is definitely plenty of media that isn’t about celebrity, and there is also non-profit media. Media actually refers to communication to the masses. A social network is simply one form of social media.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
Forums are social media though.
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.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
Interesting point. However, I think there are many anonymous account on Twitter, for example. Yet it is no different from others.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
By that definition Social Media was invented in the 80s with the BBS (so pre-internet, using modems).
MxM111@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yep. They just did not call it like that back then.
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.
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.
MxM111@kbin.social 11 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.
derpgon@programming.dev 11 months ago
In global context, maybe. In this thread, not quite. I do not consider ChatGPT to be objective or that it understands context of an external source.