And it has communities. Right?
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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 year agoThis barely qualifies. Lemmy is essentially a link aggregator with a comment section
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Which are subscriptions to certain topics
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’d say it’s a very pure form of social media. Like Mastodon.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And if doing drugs has taught me anything pure and not psychologically affective are not synonymous, it just means you can properly dose and should be able to predict the effects.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Any media that allows you to be social is a social media.
Just because we use fake names doesn’t change much about it. We are all still discussing things like the social beings we are.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So an IRC chatroom is social media?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
By that logic any comment section on a news site is social media. If any kind of interaction with other people while consuming some kind of content on the internet qualifies the term is meaningless
krashmo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anytime it gets mentioned there’s always some neckbeard with who defines anything on the internet as social media making that exact comment too. “Lemmy is social media hehehe” as if there’s no difference between this and and FB.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
Just because it is different from Facebook, it does not make it non-social.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But the point is, almost every page on the internet has a social aspect now. It’s all about engagement. Is NYT social media? They have arguments in the comment section under every article. Is healthline social media?
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
Good points. I would say those are examples of webpages with social media elements. I guess it is about focus of the website. NYT focus is news. Lemmy? Interaction between users. At least for me. I just can’t call lemmy a news aggregator.
beardown@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Most NYT articles do not permit comments anymore.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Please just stop.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
Never! It is my crusade to call Lemmy a social media!