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Isn't Lemmy a social media?
The anonymous factor differentiates things.
Can't any social media be anonymous?
Sure but it's not intended to be.
Also a big part of it is imo that you never interact with the same people on sites like reddit or Lemmy, you don't follow anyone or anything.
I often see the same people over and over again on lemmy since its a small community. I even saw the same nicks on reddit often (like shittymorph). But yes it isn't intended to be ego centric like other sites.
Good old asocial network.
So Twitter isn't a social media?
The "social" aspect is up to debate.
Usernames though. Anonymous would be something like 4chan
I guess they mean Facebook, Xitter, etc. You know, the big ones.
I think anonymous social media, while still social media, occupies a very different category from non-anonymous (identified?) social media. And the default interpretation of "social media" is the latter.
That'd make Twitter not social media for people not using their actual names.
Alot of people do use their names on Twitter, and they really encourage you to follow, buy, and sell.
I don't recall people calling forums social media, and Lemme (and Reddit) are more like forums, with you following the subject. Not each other. Very much like BBS back in the day except with links.
The tougher requirement of people using their name would leave very few social medias. Basically just LinkedIn and Facebook, with Twitter and others that have usernames but also named people being in the grey area.
Even though there are anonymous people on twitter, it still asks you to follow, and the posts are generally self promotion, not discussion of topics. That is the big difference.
Lemmy is media, without the social part. Unless you really want to. I have not even looked at the users names I respond to, because that does not matter. On twitter, it actually does, real name or not.
Any media can be anonymous.
It's a link aggregator
It's also "social news", which is a kind of social media.
Only if you don't participate in the comments sections or even just look at them.
More or less, but they specified “regular social media” which Lemmy is not
How dare you?
I'm on kbin. But I'd consider this and other reddit inspired websites to be closer to a forum than a social media. Sure, you can use it like a regular social media site, but it's more tilted towards a forum method.
Not a regular one