this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?

No one I know knows what Lemmy is.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

it's more of a forum than social media if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn't call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren't really social media for me. I don't throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don't know in hope to get likes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It's very different in that it's as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

forums existed long before what we call social media was even invented

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it's Social Media once there are ads and blatant anti-user changes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

*I* don't even know what Lemmy is, and I've been using it daily for months!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can explain it to you: it's a social media

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hmmm... I want to believe you, but that sounds like a made-up term...