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[-] [email protected] 130 points 2 years ago

I am 24, autistic, straight edge, and a data analyst. I'm the youngest person in my company, the closest person to me in age is 45. I haven't used a regular social media site since I was 14. My only interaction with modern discourse is my girlfriend's 18 year old sister. When she talks she might as well be speaking another language. My hobbies are unix, classic literature, VHS collecting, and synthesizers. My girlfriend calls me her 80 year old boyfriend.

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

The anonymous factor differentiates things.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Can't any social media be anonymous?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Sure but it's not intended to be.

Also a big part of it is imo that you never interact with the same people on sites like reddit or Lemmy, you don't follow anyone or anything.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I often see the same people over and over again on lemmy since its a small community. I even saw the same nicks on reddit often (like shittymorph). But yes it isn't intended to be ego centric like other sites.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

So Twitter isn't a social media?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The "social" aspect is up to debate.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Good old asocial network.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Usernames though. Anonymous would be something like 4chan

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I guess they mean Facebook, Xitter, etc. You know, the big ones.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

I think anonymous social media, while still social media, occupies a very different category from non-anonymous (identified?) social media. And the default interpretation of "social media" is the latter.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That'd make Twitter not social media for people not using their actual names.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Any media can be anonymous.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It's also "social news", which is a kind of social media.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Only if you don't participate in the comments sections or even just look at them.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

More or less, but they specified “regular social media” which Lemmy is not

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm on kbin. But I'd consider this and other reddit inspired websites to be closer to a forum than a social media. Sure, you can use it like a regular social media site, but it's more tilted towards a forum method.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Not a regular one

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