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.
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
Does that make Lemmy an underground black market?
🤔I would call lemmy home-grown weed, while mainstream social media is lab refined heroine
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.
I can live with that 😁
Lemmy is the public kitchen.
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):
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