I wouldn’t call this social interactions. Tress commentary between anonymous people in a comments sections hardly qualifies as social and even though it’s technically an interaction it’s only just.
If you compare this to say, Facebook the interaction levels massively different.
I mean we’re just now participating (i.e. discussing) socially. So what in what world isn’t that social media? I think we both agree that Facebook is bad social media, but that doesn’t mean that something like lemmy isn’t social media. Just because the term has a bad reputation because of platforms like Facebook or Instagram.
As much as I support Cannabis not being schedule 1 drug (in the US), it’s a bad comparison, as it’s a classification by the government, while social media is a cumulative term for various characteristics of an (internet) platform, in which lemmy definitely falls in…
Yes News aggregator is the sub class of that form of social media, but as it is done by the community, and there’s a lot of social interaction, it’s still social media…
Yeah I knew there’d be one of you I don’t consider lemmy or reddit social media.
I considered them to be more or less news aggregators than anything else.
Just because there’s the ability to leave comments doesn’t necessarily make it social media.
drives a truck everywhere
“I don’t use cars like everyone else. This is a different means of conveyance altogether.”
Your analogy is bad and you should feel bad.
I mean it’s a media platform, where you can interact socially - so social media?
I wouldn’t call this social interactions. Tress commentary between anonymous people in a comments sections hardly qualifies as social and even though it’s technically an interaction it’s only just.
If you compare this to say, Facebook the interaction levels massively different.
I seldom just paste wiki links, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
So by definition (of wikipedia, which at this point I’m considering a viable source) lemmy is social media…
There are of course differences between social media, some are worse, some are better, but it’s still social media.
Yes. I understand that lemmy and reddit are considered social media for classification or legal purposes or what not.
I, personally do not agree with the classification nor do I consider either platform to be social media.
I would go so far as to argue that they are not infact social media but, again, news aggregators.
I would even state firmly that their classification as social media is incorrect.
In the same sense that cannabis is categorized as a schedule one narcotic but we all know it actually isn’t.
I mean we’re just now participating (i.e. discussing) socially. So what in what world isn’t that social media? I think we both agree that Facebook is bad social media, but that doesn’t mean that something like lemmy isn’t social media. Just because the term has a bad reputation because of platforms like Facebook or Instagram.
As much as I support Cannabis not being schedule 1 drug (in the US), it’s a bad comparison, as it’s a classification by the government, while social media is a cumulative term for various characteristics of an (internet) platform, in which lemmy definitely falls in…
Yes News aggregator is the sub class of that form of social media, but as it is done by the community, and there’s a lot of social interaction, it’s still social media…