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 11 months agoForums are social media though.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
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.