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Social media = slave mentality
Said on lemmy, the socialist media.
Can you name a single Lemmy power user who's shilling something? the biggest users I can think of on .world are just posting Star Trek memes.
Shills aren’t a requirement for social media.
Also it was kind of a joke. Lemmy is a social media, but it also socialist by the definition of the word. The joke enhanced by the fact that most the instances I’ve seen lean hard to the left.
I suppose you could say the same about most the fediverse.
But give it time. Lemmy isn’t popular enough yet, but eventually there will be plenty of “users” exploiting the algorithms for financial or political gain. Lemmy hasn’t reached the critical mass necessary for that to be worthwhile.
that isnt a requirement for something to be social media. lemmy is definitely social media, it’s better than most but still qualifies
Different people have very different ideas of what social media is. No one really thinks of the old bulletin boards as social media, but if Lemmy is social media so are they. Some people only consider effective platforms for advertisement as real social media. For me, it requires some form of algorithm dumping shit down your throat or people over sharing.
I understand the connotation, most people only consider things like youtube, tiktok, and facebook social media. but there is an actual definition for social media and even the old chat boards fit that definition
Internet forums were never social media. Link aggregators are a substitute for niche Internet forums.