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Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow
(www.newindianexpress.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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let all social media die in flames.
its nothing but a cancer on society and counts among the worst ills to befall mankind.
So, uh, why do you post here?
Because Lemmy is a forum, not social media.
Forums are a thing from the archaic ages before you kids thought phones were the only way to be online. 👴
For what it's worth, I agree with you about Lemmy (and Reddit) not really qualifying as "social media." I think of it more as a spectrum than a binary value...
And just to split hairs even a little more, I think Lemmy is more palatable* than Reddit for me, by virtue of the smaller (and generally more tech-savvy) user base.
E: Spelling (thank you, WelcomeBear!)
I just wanted to mention that I got a chuckle out of the word “pallettable” because it’s not quite right but I totally see how you got there. I thought you might like to know that the word is “palatable.”
A palette is the board that a painter uses to hold paint, a pallet is something you pick up with a forklift and a palate is the roof of your mouth/your tasting skill. So something that’s pallettable sounds like something tasty that you’d smear all over a giant board and forklift onto a truck.
Fucking English, lol
Lemmy definitely has a younger and less experienced, educated user base.
Tech-savy, yes.
Lemmy is a media that allows you to be social.
Forums are also social media.
by that definition bathroom walls are social media.
They are social, a busy bar bathroom? You'll make a friend for life in there. There's little media though. Unless they have TVs inside the bathroom/stalls, and I wouldn't really count music since the focus isn't the music but doing your business.
Well, you can make it social with a large drill bit through the stall walls.
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I like how you think that's a clever rebuttal, when it's actually correct.
Social medium, but close enough.
You kids, ha. I'm hitting 40 soon, and Lemmy is absolutely as much social media as Reddit is, just different scale and technological underpinning. Don't be high and mighty about it, you can easily burn as much time scrolling through Lemmy communities.
Being able to burn time on something doesnt make it social media.
No, but he's right, it is, and they are.
That's like saying Twitter isn't social media because its a microblog. Lemmy is definitely social media. We have profiles, can add each other as friends, send private messages, etc. It's not structured the same as most other social media websites, but it is social media
By your definition even email is social media.
No, because email is point to point. Ffs. 🤦
Pigeon chess
You are the pigeon, my guy.
Yes, but email isn't "media", while being a medium.
Lemmy & forums are social media.
Email is not.
However... Mailing lists (where all member have publishing rights) may make me rethink and retract this.
Saying you post on Lemmy/Forums, so it must be social media
Is like trying to argue that raw shit is food, because you can pick it up with a spoon and put it in your mouth.
You are stretching your point so fucking far, that anything from clay tablets to facebook is included under the umbrella, When you and everyone else knows (despite the inability of some to admit it) that social media is a very specific thing, that conjures a very specific idea when you are talking about it, and that very specific idea is generally facebook/twitter, where very specific kind of posts are made, typically linked to your real life face/name/life/business. Posts that you don't generally make on forums, because when you post on forums you are posting in reference to the topic of the forum, because no one there gives a shit about your fake tits, fake tan or fake vacation picture.
you fucking retard.
interacting with other people is "social".
the word "social" isn't defined by, or have anything to do with holiday photos you spoon.
is content submitted by users as opposed to site owners only? that's social media.
hopefully you learnt something today, but given what a stupid piece of shit you seem to be, I doubt it.
You keep shoveling that shit in your mouth while insisting its the worlds most delicious food.
lol English is hard for you, isn't it?
Sure buddy.
baby, you don't have any buddies, pals or friends.
Sure buddy.
You know, when I first started to become active on Internet communities as a preteen in the early-to-mid-2000s, I don't think anyone really used the term "social media" to describe them. The term may have existed already, but I didn't think of myself as a user of "social media" at all at the time.
At the time we had web forums run on software like phpBB. Later I discovered wikis and blogs. I have no idea when people started to insist on using the strange term "social media" which may or may not include all those things. Is Reddit/Lemmy "social media"? It certainly differs from most other "social media" in significant ways: we mostly don't use our real names, we don't have followers, we mainly communicate with random strangers rather than the people we know IRL. This is a lot more similar to traditional web forums than to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X/Mastodon, etc.
It is still very similar. Reddit and Lemmy are now primarily fluff content. I've had to block dozens of fluff subs on Lemmy. And misinformation and toxic/unintelligent users are a problem here too.
Wdym by fluff?
Low-quality, mindless content designed to keep mindless people infinitely scrolling.
Opinion only applies to others' habits.