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• FederatedSaint@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having no actual presence on social media

  I’ve got some bad news for you…

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I meant no actual presence on social media where I’m not using a pseudonym, and exchange profiles with the general public that I meet.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Forums are not social media. How is this hard to understand. Forums have existed for decades longer than social media and if you include forums in the definition of social media then you literally by definition include every comment section on every blog, news site, and even things like the FCC request for comments from citizens.

    It’s absolutely idiotic to include forums in that definition. You make the definition so wide as to be useless.

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    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People have gotten confused and declared that any internet based activity that involves interaction is social media. Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics, and people for whatever crazy reason use their real name), whereas there is absolutely no real reason to do that on a forum.

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      • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Social media is centered on users (you follow other people, not topics

        This is the exact reason I never became interested in Mastodon. Following people just isn’t my style. The only social media I use is YouTube (without an account) because apparently Lemmy isn’t social media.

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      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        if forums are social media, or the internet more broadly is social media, would that include shit like, newspapers? And like, the library?

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• FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If that’s considered creepy then I’m john wayne gacy

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually got a date once by saying I had 10 laptop computers and no Facebook account. Not a good match in other regards, but the person was cool about privacy.

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