Admiral PatrickDo you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?
gregorumNot exactly. Lemmy (like Reddit) is a social news/link aggregator. So it’s not social media per se, but it’s certainly social media adjacent.
RedditWandererLmao because you changed media to news/links it’s somehow adjacent?
I can’t believe the number of comments like this one. They are both social media
Social media websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
Lemme isn’t a social network like Facebook or Instagram or TikTok
Facebook isn’t like instagram, instagram isn’t like tiktok, lemmy isn’t like tiktok, but they are all social media.
When people find communities like making break and share tips and pictures, that’s networking.
originaluciferMost create content, and post it publicly for other social circles to see their media. It's social media lol
this isnt even kind of true. most users of these systems post nothing. the content posters are a very small, valuable contingent compared to the lurkers/viewers.
Yeah that’s a badly written sentence. “Most post for other social circles to see their media when they create content”.
Doesn’t change the arguments that this is social media. Lemmings and reditors just like to feel special
so the term social media involves any written word where more than one person can see it. got it.
Essentially , but that wouldn’t be totally correct, youre framing it that way to make a strawman. The definition is:
Social media websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
So written words, shared on a platform made to exchange words and images publicly for others to discuss/comment on, if you really don’t want to use the dictionary.