• MxM111@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Forums are social media though. Social interaction, community building, content sharing. All is there. Being anonymous does not have much impact on that.

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      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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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year 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.

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      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.