I have noticed a trend that social media is not about being social anymore but I’d more about the “media”
Its a place to consume media or generate it but interaction with it has become more limited. You can like it, or buy something from it or move on.
So lemmy is like that cool growing weed in their house?
Mastodon was specifically designed to be less addictive than xitter.
Lemmy is a lot like the old Reddit. In the current version of Reddit, there is an algorithm that fills your feed with stupid nonsense that is apparently very popular among the majority. I guess that makes it even more addictive than what it was long ago.
Anyway, comparing modern social media with drugs isn’t far fetched.
I love that this place still thinks it’s any different than Reddit.
The algorithm changes little.
The algorithm changes little.
The algorithm is the problem. Lemmy is like coke after they removed the cocaine. It’s good, but it’s not nearly as addictive.
Actually, it’s a heuristic.
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The fundamentals are still the same, so in that sense you’re absolutely correct.
There are major differences that make Lemmy better though.
- it’s smaller
- the UI doesn’t suck
- you can use whatever client you like
- it’s federated. If you don’t like this instance, make an account in another.
Sure sounds like addictive features to me
Reverse chronological is second best to synchronous social media.
Soo… is that like newest on top and oldest at the bottom or which way does it go?
Anyway, my Madtodon feed is really boring. I don’t really care enough about anyone, so there’s usually nothing worth reading. Following hashtags is a bit nicer, but definitely not addictive in the least. Hence, I don’t really use that account for anything. About once a month I take look what’s going on, come to the same conclusion as always, and close the app. Well done Mastodon!
No, they are not, stop posting talking points that justify authoritarian government policies, those aren’t showerthoughts.
That’s shitty. And absolves companies like Meta as stated.
Does that make Lemmy an underground black market?
🤔I would call lemmy home-grown weed, while mainstream social media is lab refined heroine
call lemmy home-grown weed
Yup, occasionally it is really good but every now and again you smoke something so horrendous you wonder how someone grew that on purpose, but also sometimes you find a seed that makes you think about growing something yourself and seeing how it goes.
I was thinking Lemmy isn’t even a real drug. It’s that weird kid who hands you a paper bag to hyperventilate until you feel high.
Or maybe that shit with the whipped cream cans. Except it’s whipped beans.
Copium.
I think in that metaphor, Lemmy is more like a tor-hidden drug forum filled with dyi enthusiasts.
Lemmy is the public kitchen.
I can live with that 😁
Lemmy is a forum, not social media. It has none of the hallmarks of social media, and is only alike in the fact that you talk to other people, which is literally the entire point of the internet in the first place.
Forums are a type of social media.
Look, the six types of social media are: mail, instant chat, forum, blog, feed, and game. Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok are feeds. Discord and Whatsapp are instant chat. Email is mail. Reddit is a forum that wants to be a feed, and it used to also have mail, but they got rid of it and replaced it with instant chat. Tumblr is both a blog and a feed, as is youtube. Any site with user pages is technically also a blog, but most such sites would rather be feeds. And then there’s games, most notably World of Warcraft, but also Halo and Minecraft and chess.com.
definition of social media (from Merriam Webster):
forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)
lemmy fits this definition perfectly, what are you on about?
It feels like social media to me. It has upvotes, replies, notifications, comments, a feed… If it’s not a social media then neither is Reddit, and at that point the word stops being meaningful. Look right now we’re even arguing about semantics just like any good social media
If you upload your ID you can continue to get it.
Deal with it. You problem. I’m here for a half hour to hour and out. The users in the thread trying to differentiate Reddit and Lemmy are predictablly sad.
"thIs place is like weed and reddit heroin " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👍
