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tyler@programming.dev 4 months agoWe’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.
tal@lemmy.today 4 months ago
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)
tyler@programming.dev 4 months 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.