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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

Forums are social media though. Social interaction, community building, content sharing. All is there. Being anonymous does not have much impact on that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    True, but I think the big difference is that social media in the way of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc are tied to your identity IRL and include people that you actually know IRL, therefore are almost an extension of your life, whereas lemmy, reddit, and other iterest-specific forums have to option of decoupling from real life.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everything is everything if you squint enough. You have to look past the meaning of the words and look at the context - social media is usually considered to be FB, Insta, TikTok, Xitter.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Ask ChatGPT if Reddit is a social media. It will give you answer “yes”, while noting features that are different from FB. ChatGPT is a good way to judge what is “usually” considered as this or that.

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