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No surprise. Y'all are dumb if you think the point of all social media isn't to just make money.
Does that include Lemmy and Mastodon?
Both of those are federated options with no central company behind them. They have issues, but not because they have a corporate algorithm feeding their users.
So not all social media, gotcha.
Topic of debate perhaps, is this really "social media" as we've know it?
I mean yeah it's got all of the hallmarks of what we would define it as. But it's also got additional things that don't neatly fit into this label. Just like old school BBS and Forums and whatever else weren't really "social media" either. Just like Lemmy and the fediverse, they could largely fit the definitions that we assigned "Social Media" but we didn't know it as such, like we didn't call forums social media, we called them forums. Just like this, like it's almost like the founding formula for the new evolution of what will become whatever social media is replaced by.
For the record I dont think this is going to be it. I don't think Lemmy is really going to be a long standing "thing", but whatever it evolves into next could be. Especially centralized with connections that can be severed.
Is it Social Media if there's no algo? No one called IRC or old forums "social media" when they were at their heights.
It just wasn't a term yet because it wasn't popular. But yes, those were social media. IRC was a medium in which you could be social. I was there.
I was there too. It wasn't a term because marketers didn't invent the term yet. Key part, it was Marketers that invented the term. Marketers didn't care before they found a way to use it to manipulate people. You can argue that those thing are "social media", but not in anyway that makes social media a problem.
Social media invented as a term or not invented as a term, it's still a place where we can socialize on the Internet. 🤷♂️ I don't really care what we call it.
Or Usenet. Or BBSs. But one could argue they were all social media. I think the difference is the control that is being exerted by people in power. And that’s likely due to the audience size. It becomes an effective way to guide people’s ideas, decisions, etc. Facebook got there. Reddit got there. Lemmy could.
Who would be the ones to do it in lemmy? People are switching to federated options to guard against that.
It’s resistant for sure. But say one instance becomes dominant and controls most traffic? It’s still possible however unlikely.
Absolutely.