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We’re talking on a forum. This is not social media. It has none of the hallmarks of social media, like friending people, following their feeds, or being a spot where you post about your lives. Forums have never been and will never be social media.

Just like Facebook Marketplace isn’t social media, just because you can do something on a site doesn’t mean that site belongs to a completely separate category of sites.

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tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

This is not social media.

I hate to break it to you, but Reddit and similar fall under the category of social media.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)

Lemmy is made up of a network of individual installations of the Lemmy software that can intercommunicate. This departs from the centralized, monolithic structure of other social media platforms.[9] It has been described as a federated alternative to Reddit.[10]

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- tyler@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It really doesn’t. It is pointless to describe forums as social media because then you’re really calling everything on the internet social media. News comment sections, blogs with comment sections, even Amazon product pages which have comment sections! You can even follow sellers on Amazon.
  
  There has to be a line somewhere and it’s definitely on the other side of forums.
  
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