Also, if no one is posting on social media, then what the hell are we all doing right now then?
- I don't consider this or reddit social media. I don't know anyone, nor do I care to.
  
  Instead it is like a collection of forums since forever like in the bbs days.
  
  I pick and choose what rooms to go in and learn something. But it isn't about me, or staying connected. You know, the social part.
  
  This and Reddit are 100% social media. Right now, writing this, we are socializing on this media.
  
  Maybe I'm wrong, but this is how I've viewed it for years
  
  No, I don't think so. Not in the sense that social media became defined. Web forum, and bbs rooms, existed long before the term. The key difference and turning point was removal of anonymity, and the concept of self promotion. I know they are similar and overlap, but the evolution from one to the other did occur. Reddit and Lemmy still have more in common with news aggregation and forums than say a Titter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Most of the content here is in reference to something else, end then discussion are on that.
  
  nah. Social Media has a sort of implied entertainment attached to it, which is not a good description of, e.g., this very discussion. This -can- be social media if you're just lurking, but for us conversing here this is now a forum. We're sharing thoughts and discussing.
  
  ...for entertainment. For fun.
  
  I don't think many of us would come here if it wasn't fun.
  
  That's basically how most of Instagram works and is what the article is about. No one knows folks on those platforms either. They aren't "social" anymore. No one shares anything personal, it's all "content" created for millions of followers by influencers and the like. This is probably more like social media than current platforms are. It's closer to what social media was when it started.
- My Facebook is only memes, only from the large meme pages, not the ones I like that I have to check manually since they'll never end up in my feed. And news articles.
  
  It started with Facebook just hiding what your friends are posting. It still happens that someone shares a photo once a year or so, but I will never get shown it. I just browse my friend's profiles manually.
  
  That was extremely dissatisfying about Facebook. I’d see an endless stream of crap from people that I barely knew and didn’t care about at all, and then when I’d look at a profile of someone I actually knew and did want to keep up with, I’d see posts about significant and interesting things that happened in their lives which Facebook never showed me. I tried to get them to stop showing me irritating posts about politics - unfollow people, block people, mark “show less posts like this”, then it would come up with more political posts from people I didn’t even recognize. Meanwhile, oh, colleague got married…. sure, just never show me that post and show me 15 idiotic political memes instead.
  
  and we'd voice our opinion AS THESE CHANGES WERE HAPPENING and people would cry "things change you just don't like change hur durr i'm so progressive"
- I'm assuming you're just here studying nerds for your next blockbuster where you're playing Ada Lovelace or something.
  
  ... I don't know what you're talking about.
  
  On a purely coincidentally note, how likely would you be in watching an Ada Lovelace biopic? No reason, just asking.
  
  With you playing her? 100%.
  
  Depends. Is it written by Sydney Padua?
  
  🤐
  
  You'd better make this happen or some anonymous nerd on the Internet will be marginally disappointed, and I don't think you want that on your hands.
- Lemmy isn't social media, it's content aggregation, like reddit used to be
  
  Might as well say Instagram isn't social media either, nor is Facebook or Twitter. Social media is just a platform where one of the biggest parts of it is the commenting system. Its a social media platform for content aggregation. The commenting makes it social.
  
  There are tons of "but Lemmy isn't social media because blah blah blah!!!" comments here by the kids who think they are too cool to be lumped in with the instagram / facebook crowd.
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