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Only YouTube.
I was pretty addicted to Reddit for a while, but eventually I got banned for basically no reason and that was enough to get me to almost entirely stop checking it.
I don't think YouTube counts as social media. Also, you can disable ads, comments and shorts, it feels so much better
I think it counts
unless you're actively posting and commenting and interacting on youtube, you aren't though.
some of us just watch videos. I never had an account either until I was forced to get one due to them blocking so many vids from being viewed without signing in.
just like i sometimes read twitter comments, but i don't have a twitter account and i don't interact it, they just sometimes come up as links in stories i'm reading. same with tiktok or IG videos/images. I see it mostly through other websites that are using them as sources.
that's very different than most people who are using it to as a means of socialization. I don't even regard reddit/lemmy or internet comments as socialization. some people do. i have never have a 'reddit friend' even though I used teh site for over a decade. to me it was just shit on the internet that was fun to comment about.
Why would YouTube not count as social media?
Pre-rebuttal in case you go in this direction: Being a social media platform and being a video sharing platform are not mutually exclusive.
It's just TV, there's nothing social about it for many people
Like Netflix with a different library
Would you consider tiktok to be social media, then?
yeah because it's mostly talking heads and the tik tok videos are meant to be replied to by other videos.
a lot of youtube isn't like that. it's just videos.
do some people use youtube as a social platform? yes. like the massive genre of talking heads and 'reaction' videos.
That's a way to use it (and the one I prefer) but it's still media with social components, ergo social media.