Is anyone here so hardcore that they don’t even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
Is anyone here so hardcore that they don’t even bother with mainstream social media? If its not on Lemmy or Mastodon it must not be important? Anyone that hardcore?
I haven’t browsed Reddit since the creation of my Lemmy account (~2years ago); though I’ve wound up viewing a Reddit thread or two via a google search on rare occasion. Beyond those two, the only other ‘social media’ I’ve used in at least a decade is Youtube.
For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make
That’s fair. I think it kind of depends on how much you interact with creators and their communities. (comment sections, comunity posts, live content, etc)
Reddit isn’t social media, YouTube isn’t social media. People started branding anything with a comment thread as social media and it’s nonsensical. Criteria for social media: 1. Must allow following any user 2. Users must not be anonymous 3. Must be able to interact with, chat, send messages to, etc. any user. 4. All of the above must be the main point of the site.
Reddit is a forum of forums. The point is aggregated news feed for different forums. User to user social interaction is not the main point, and the user to user interaction that occurs is forum interaction, which existed decades before social media.
YouTube is a video sharing site. It has comment sections just like any news site.
If YouTube is social media then literally any news site is social media. If Reddit is social media then every forum on the planet is social media. Neither of those things make sense, therefore they’re not social media.
Sorry I just absolutely hate that everyone refers to anything with a comment section as social media now. It completely devalues the word and makes it meaningless.
Who set those rules? Is there standards body that promulgates them? I remember that social media emerged as a term to describe media on which the users provided the content, rather than traditional gatekeepers like newspapers and TV networks. Wikipedia agrees, using special jargon, distinguishing between monologic and dialogic media models.
Reddit is quintessential social media.
https://xkcd.com/927/
The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social
4chan is social media.
Hmm. For me social media is where end users create the media. So Reddit, Lemmy, YouTube all fit this.
Likewise, switched to Lemmy, never looked back.
I only use reddit now when it shows up in search engine results.
My exact response. Thank you
Same boat. There is obviously less content, but the user engagement seems more meaningful than getting lost in a sea of comments on some /r/AskReddit mega-thread. Not to mention, not having to deal with nearly as many Trump supporters and anti-LGBTQ people.
Remember /r/GenderCritical? A supposed rad-fem space that’s only purpose was to denigrate any existence of trans people? Or the multiple copies that propped up after it was banned?
Same here. Most of my reddit usage was on my phone and used baconreader. When they killed 3rd party apps I switched to lemmy. My only reddit usage now is occasionally clicking on reddit links to search results on niche topics. Though i don’t do that much on my phone because of the annoyance of reddit constantly requesting to open in app instead of mt browser.
I kinda like that AI scrapes all of reddit as my Kagi searches can summarize reddit results without actually going to reddit.
I also don’t use any other social media, such as mastodon. I quit facebook about a decade ago and see zero reason to join anything else.
I had my first 3 months or so where I used both reddit and lemmy, then eventually I switched mainly to lemmy and only used reddit from a privacy frontend where I can’t interact, and then a month or so later I just fully ditched reddit.
I think I’ve been off reddit for a full year now. (Don’t be fooled by my account age, this ain’t my first account).
Dito, this is the way.