I guess I'm glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn't a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It just wasn't a term yet because it wasn't popular. But yes, those were social media. IRC was a medium in which you could be social. I was there.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I was there too. It wasn't a term because marketers didn't invent the term yet. Key part, it was Marketers that invented the term. Marketers didn't care before they found a way to use it to manipulate people. You can argue that those thing are "social media", but not in anyway that makes social media a problem.

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