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Does Lemmy count as social media?? lol
Yes but I’d classify it as a different category more akin to old school forums. It’s less a place to post photos of yourself and more one to discuss and read about stuff you enjoy (or memes). I just want a place personally to discuss movies, video games, technology etc
In broad strokes, yeah. I'd even consider older, more traditional forms like forums and IRC/BBS to be proto forms of social media. As long as the internet exists there will be social media, what form it takes is malleable depending on the desires of the userbase at hand.
At that point the operational definition is just "website where you can post stuff"
Not to me.
Just like Reddit, it's more anonymous and the people you are interacting with don't really matter, you don't know them, they don't know you.
You just interact for a few minutes and never see each other again.
Hi, bye.
I prefer it not be this way.
I kind of hate getting replies here and I can tell the person I'm talking to isn't paying attention to who in the thread they are talking to. It's like people aren't seeing each other as people.
Yeah the way you describe it makes it sound like we could build an AI forum where each user is the only one in there and all the rest are ai bots whose only purpose is to generate the content and interaction we're looking for.
I think Reddit is just the beta version.