Comment on Thankfully I deleted my account

• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t really count Lemmy or Mastodon. They feel more like forums to me, but that might be my age showing. I know traditional forums these days have fallen out of popularity.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    forums, message boards, reddunit, fuzzbook, instagone… anywhere you interact with multiple ppl is these days technically social media

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is more content-first where facebook/twitter/etc are user-first. I think user-first brings out worse patterns.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As long as you get away from the social media algorithmic platforms it’s good

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and where does one find those? everything is a damn algorithm nowadays

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pretty sure lemmy isn’t

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Forums and blogs were not what people mean by “social media.” Lemmy is an evolution of forums.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they are social. and they are a medium. hence… social media

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Elon Musk is African-American.

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