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[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Posted right into social media 👍

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?

No one I know knows what Lemmy is.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

it's more of a forum than social media if you ask me

[–] Muetzenman@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

forums existed long before what we call social media was even invented

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

it's Social Media once there are ads and blatant anti-user changes

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

*I* don't even know what Lemmy is, and I've been using it daily for months!

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can explain it to you: it's a social media

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Hmmm... I want to believe you, but that sounds like a made-up term...

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

This is hardly social media. None of y'all exist

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

antisocial media

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 points 2 years ago

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)