Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow

• bcgm3@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For what it’s worth, I agree with you about Lemmy and Reddit not really qualifying as “social media.” I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value…

  • Old school forums were very specific to a single topic (though most forums I used did have an “Off Topic” board), and only lightly social – I never knew any forum user outside of their respective forum, and certainly not in real life.
  • On the opposite end, Facebook/Insta/TikTok are very social – there’s a lot of expectation that you’ll be interacting with people that you know personally – and they are more “agnostic” (?) of any one particular topic.
  • Reddit and Lemmy land somewhere in between those two extremes, in terms of both the social and topical aspects. But neither cross the line into “social media,” at least not for me and my personal definition of the term.

  And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palettable than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.

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  • WelcomeBear@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just wanted to mention that I got a chuckle out of the word “pallettable” because it’s not quite right but I totally see how you got there. I thought you might like to know that the word is “palatable.”
    A palette is the board that a painter uses to hold paint, a pallet is something you pick up with a forklift and a palate is the roof of your mouth/your tasting skill. So something that’s pallettable sounds like you’d smear a bunch of it all over a giant board and forklift it onto a truck

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lemmy definitely has a younger and less experienced, educated user base.

    Tech-savy, yes.

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• danielbln@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You kids, ha. I’m hitting 40 soon, and Lemmy is absolutely as much social media as Reddit is, just different scale and technological underpinning. Don’t be high and mighty about it, you can easily burn as much time scrolling through Lemmy communities.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being able to burn time on something doesnt make it social media.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, but he’s right, it is, and they are.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lemmy is a media that allows you to be social.

  Forums are also social media.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    by that definition bathroom walls are social media.

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    • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tbh the discourse of bathroom graffiti is typically better than that of FB

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    • wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are social, a busy bar bathroom? You’ll make a friend for life in there. There’s little media though. Unless they have TVs inside the bathroom/stalls, and I wouldn’t really count music since the focus isn’t the music but doing your business.

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      • bbkpr@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, you can make it social with a large drill bit through the stall walls.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like how you think that’s a clever rebuttal, when it’s actually correct.

      Social medium, but close enough.

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• crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No matter how much you rationalise it, forum is still a social media. You are still socialising after all. You can still post pictures in forums if you want, but modern social platforms just have better UI and convenience to post videos and photos than older forums.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By your definition even email is social media.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      by your inability to know what social media is, it is impossible for you to converse on the topic.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, because email is point to point. Ffs. 🤦

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    • crackajack@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, people have been sending mails before just for fun. Hence the phenomenon of “penpals”.

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      • shamrt@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pigeon chess

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• fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stop lying to yourself. Lemmy has the exact same problems as other social media. Just because the overall cost is lower due to people developing and maintaining this without a salary doesn’t it make any less toxic.

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• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s like saying Twitter isn’t social media because its a microblog. Lemmy is definitely social media. We have profiles, can add each other as friends, send private messages, etc. It’s not structured the same as most other social media websites, but it is social media

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love how angry the truth makes Lemmy users.

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• ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lEMmy iS a FORum!

  🤦 ffs. you really are dumb as shit.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boy you really just love stalking my posts and replying to me everywhere dont you.

    I know you miss your daddy and need a new, strong figure in your life. but its not me.

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s the same post, you retard.

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