Elon Musk has gone full antisemite, raising questions about the future of his companies and their relationships with commercial and government entities.
        • Lightsong@lemmy.world
          4·
          1 year ago

          You know, I’ve been always wondering about what exactly is a social media? Is it place where you can post stuff and chat with other people? Isn’t that like a forum? What exactly make it a social media? What if it’s anonymous? Etc? Seems like the definitions changes all the time.

          Tbh I have fb, Instagram, etc mainly for networking purposes but I didn’t consider Reddit a social media. And I don’t consider Lemmy a social media either. I think I view them more of “front page of the internet” if you will. Maybe because I’m anonymous here compared to FB, Instagram, etc?

          • whofearsthenight@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Upvote, but yeah, it’s all social media. You’re socializing with others. This is true even going back to BBS’s, and granted the term was popularized with MySpace and Facebook, but I def consider reddit to be social media. Ditto for lemmy, mastodon, and the fediverse.* The divide for me now is firmly the corpo-verse and the fediverse.

            * I guess maybe out there is an instance of whatever that’s read only that doesn’t allow any interaction, but still.