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Rollover says I just want to scroll videos. I would suggest loops but im have not used it and am not sure if it ever got to the point where it is federated.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

We’re not really social media though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Neither is tiktok. It's just media

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why not? A collection of links to things posted by people with comments from other people? Seems pretty social media to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So by that logic are old school forums or ms or bbs social media?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

By forms, do you mean forums? If so, yes. If you mean like Google Forms, then no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yes sorry yeah I meant forums

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anti-social social media club club

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

That's what I like about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Meh, we interact with other humans. I'd call that social.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Social is not the primary word in that phrase it's Media. Media the primary function is passive. Where only a few engage those people are the media personalities or in new media influencers. Since lemmy is so small most people engage since is not big enough to be used to make money or influence people to make other people money. So lemmy acts more like old school forums with a big webring than social media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I disagree. We are sharing media. Whether or not the poster has a large following or is making money is irrelevant. What matters is that we're socializing, of a sort, by sharing media with one another.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

While true and I can see where you are coming from. My logic is we are sharing media meaning this is not the media in of itself. If this is social media, do you consider a discussion board like the ones that use phpbb social media? Honest question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Socialist media