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    The best distiction i’ve heard is that social media follows people (twitter, youtube, mastodon, etc… whereas lemmy, reddit, etc… follow topics. They’re more like news feeds with a comment section.

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        Yeah, I came from ebaumsworld forums to Reddit, and Reddit to here, and they all scratch the same itch, which is basically me engaging in meaningless (not always) conversation with people, sometimes seriously, sometimes jokingly. All that’s changed is how it looks and how people talk.

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        Lemmy reporting on lemmy is just regular old news i’m pretty sure. Would an online newspaper with a comment section count as social media then? How about paper newspapers with an active “comments from readers” section?

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      If you just wanted to follow a topic, you could follow Wikipedia RSS feeds.

      If you’re reading and responding to comments, you’re engaging in social media.

    • SippyCup@feddit.nl
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      Ok bare with me here. News feeds with comments is? is it media that is social?

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          I will not bend my sails for a wind that blows the wrong direction, no matter how powerful the gust.

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            The only wind blowing in the wrong direction is coming from your ass, which is clearly the source of your “modern version of bulletin boards equals social media” hypothesis.

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              Wow. you’re particularly tilted about it. I’d expect this kind of reaction on Facebook but not on a refined, sophisticated place that clearly isn’t social media.

              Go the fuck outside dude.

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                Nah, just because I’m direct and amusing myself with some light wordplay doesn’t mean that I’m particularly incensed. Sounds like you’re being overly defensive about your stupid pet hypothesis 🤷

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                    Are you guys not on the same side of the argument? Not about the buttholes and their expulsions, but about where forums/message boards rank versus Facebook.

                    If, like all things, it’s a gradient, I’d plop these message boards far left of the likes of Myspace, and xanga, etc.