Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn’t call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren’t really social media for me. I don’t throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don’t know in hope to get likes.
I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It’s very different in that it’s as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing
Where I live, Facebook is used by baby boomers, so yes it’s still used. But that’s the cliche. When I log in, I still see some millennials being at least online and some even posting unironically. But it’s mainly dead for millennials
Can’t say for OP but it still very much is where I live. People use groups for all sorts of things (neighborhood chats, classes, hobbies) and Messenger is the go-to way to contact everyone (which I admit has one advantage over all other mainstream means of contact, which is not requiring to share one’s phone number, only name)
Posted right into social media 👍
Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?
No one I know knows what Lemmy is.
it’s more of a forum than social media if you ask me
Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn’t call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren’t really social media for me. I don’t throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don’t know in hope to get likes.
I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It’s very different in that it’s as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing
forums existed long before what we call social media was even invented
it’s Social Media once there are ads and blatant anti-user changes
*I* don’t even know what Lemmy is, and I’ve been using it daily for months!
I can explain it to you: it’s a social media
Hmmm… I want to believe you, but that sounds like a made-up term…
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antisocial media
I read the meme in the way that it feels like telling people you’re not on social media since you’re on none they know.
Also: is Facebook really still a thing?
It can be surprising because lemmy’s demographic is like the opposite of facebook’s but, yeah, it really still is a thing.
A tip I often hear given to new start ups is to not underestimate how many people are only on facebook.
Where I live, Facebook is used by baby boomers, so yes it’s still used. But that’s the cliche. When I log in, I still see some millennials being at least online and some even posting unironically. But it’s mainly dead for millennials
Can’t say for OP but it still very much is where I live. People use groups for all sorts of things (neighborhood chats, classes, hobbies) and Messenger is the go-to way to contact everyone (which I admit has one advantage over all other mainstream means of contact, which is not requiring to share one’s phone number, only name)