• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      10 hours ago

      Some people define social media as platforms where you use your real identity as your name like Facebook and MySpace.

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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        10 hours ago

        drives a truck everywhere

        “I don’t use cars like everyone else. This is a different means of conveyance altogether.”

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          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.

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              7 hours ago

              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.