Please just stop.
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MxM111@kbin.social 7 months agoJust because it is different from Facebook, it does not make it non-social.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 months ago
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
Never! It is my crusade to call Lemmy a social media!
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.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I see what you’re saying, but the term “social media” applying to just a section of a website doesn’t make sense—to me. Call it whatever you want!
I, someone who was the perfect age for every iteration of what I might call “first gen” social media (MySpace/xanga/live journal in middle school, Facebook in the middle/end of my high school career into college, Instagram in college and while I traveled), only see “social media” as personalized connection sites. Sites where you are exactly who you are, connecting with others, saying exactly who they are—basically creating a “social media self.”
THAT is social media to me. But these all pose interesting questions: is a blog social media? During xanga/live journal days, it was considered social media. Are dating sites social media? Is Chatroulette? Is Facebook messenger? If that is, is telegram?
If a site where you anonymously talk to other anonymous people on the internet is social media, I stand by what I said, everything would be “social media” these days. YouTube. Is that social media? It’s all messy, I grant you, but that’s why draw the lines where I do.
Your criteria seems different. But I, as a millennial that grew up with it, I see it as a persona-first platform where people sell themselves. Lemmy is interesting because they’re technically different sites/servers about specific things, linking with other sites/servers, where people discuss the topic of the community. The focus is the object being discussed, not the subject. Social media is subjective, I think that’s where I make the distinction.
MxM111@kbin.social 7 months ago
Interesting. So, if a person is anonymous, then it is not social media in your mind?
beardown@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Most NYT articles do not permit comments anymore.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My point remains. So many different outlets and sites have social elements.