I disagree. It’s missing everything that makes social media, social media.
Its anonymous. No self promotion. No actual socializing. No controlling body, and rarely even media. No monetization.
Reddit was a link aggregator. They kind of socialized it with adding media uploads, and some people try and use it that way, but it really doesn’t meet the criteria either.
Just like a bbs and Usenet were conversational, and in some ways a bit social, neither were “social media”. And Lemmy isn’t either.
This term comes from companies pushing to monetize and unannonymize people. Facebook, or back in the day certain parts of AOL.
Lemmy and reddit are link aggregating forums. We call them forums!
Edit: its so weird to see people retcon the notion of what social media is. We never called it that back then, and we knew when social media started and began using that name because it was different to everything before. Getting downvotes for this kind of thing really is concerning, you do not understand the difference.
I disagree. It’s missing everything that makes social media, social media.
Its anonymous. No self promotion. No actual socializing. No controlling body, and rarely even media. No monetization.
Reddit was a link aggregator. They kind of socialized it with adding media uploads, and some people try and use it that way, but it really doesn’t meet the criteria either.
Just like a bbs and Usenet were conversational, and in some ways a bit social, neither were “social media”. And Lemmy isn’t either.
This term comes from companies pushing to monetize and unannonymize people. Facebook, or back in the day certain parts of AOL.
Lemmy and reddit are link aggregating forums. We call them forums!
Edit: its so weird to see people retcon the notion of what social media is. We never called it that back then, and we knew when social media started and began using that name because it was different to everything before. Getting downvotes for this kind of thing really is concerning, you do not understand the difference.