And it has communities. Right?
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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months agoThis barely qualifies. Lemmy is essentially a link aggregator with a comment section
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Which are subscriptions to certain topics
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d say it’s a very pure form of social media. Like Mastodon.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
So an IRC chatroom is social media?
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Just because it is different from Facebook, it does not make it non-social.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Most NYT articles do not permit comments anymore.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Please just stop.
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
Never! It is my crusade to call Lemmy a social media!