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It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore
(www.businessinsider.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I don't consider this or reddit social media. I don't know anyone, nor do I care to.
Instead it is like a collection of forums since forever like in the bbs days.
I pick and choose what rooms to go in and learn something. But it isn't about me, or staying connected. You know, the social part.
This is literally social media lmao
No, I don’t think so. Not in the sense that social media became defined. Web forum, and bbs rooms, existed long before the term. The key difference and turning point was self promotion, and the removal of anonymity. I know they are similar and overlap, but the evolution from one to the other did occur. Reddit and Lemmy still have more in common with news aggregation and forums than say a Titter, Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok. Most of the content here is in reference to something else, end then discussion are on that.
If you look up the history of the term the turning point is definitely the change to having real personas and real people connect. That is where the "social" part comes from. The term "social networking". But we are not social networking here. Do you actually know anyone here? Do you want to?
preach. If anyone wants an example of what is meant by "forum" if you're too accustomed to modern takes on it, visit places like news.ycombinator.com or just browse reddit using old.reddit.com and go in some less "popular" subs that aren't just people posting random pics and videos.