It’s more of a hybrid between forums and social media, but they’re of type “link aggregator” or in other words, the whole point is to post articles and then have discussions about them.
When Reddit was just getting started all you could do was post links to articles, no pictures and people loved it for that. Pictures came later, but even then depended on those pics just being another link hosted somewhere else (that’s where imgur came in) it was years before you could upload a picture direct to reddit
Yes which existed for decades before social media ever came about. Link aggregators and forums are their own thing and should never be classified with social media.
More like proto-social media, a key defining factor for modern social media is things like feeds and ranking of both comments and posts. Which even PF and Lemmy do, if however basic the algo is
Traditional forums had the community and people could post content, but there was usually no ranking of posts or comments. Mostly just chronological order, with the exception of posts with the most recent replies being at the top of whatever category you were in
Though I’m sure there probably was a few “forward thinking” large forums that did something with feeds that looked more like modern SM
So if I sort lemmy comments by new and hide the vote count, it ceases being social media?
I don’t think that’s where I’d put the dividing line.
Forums are definitely social media. They just predate the term’s widespread use.
They are most definitely not. If forums are social media then your local news site is social media and I’m sure that’s not the definition you want. In fact that exact definition is why all of the laws around social media bans and ID restrictions in the southern United States are being overturned. That definition is so vague as to be completely useless.
That’s because they’re not social media. They’re forums. So it seems like you (op) didn’t know what kind they were in the first place.
It’s more of a hybrid between forums and social media, but they’re of type “link aggregator” or in other words, the whole point is to post articles and then have discussions about them.
When Reddit was just getting started all you could do was post links to articles, no pictures and people loved it for that. Pictures came later, but even then depended on those pics just being another link hosted somewhere else (that’s where imgur came in) it was years before you could upload a picture direct to reddit
Yes which existed for decades before social media ever came about. Link aggregators and forums are their own thing and should never be classified with social media.
Forums are social media, too.
More like proto-social media, a key defining factor for modern social media is things like feeds and ranking of both comments and posts. Which even PF and Lemmy do, if however basic the algo is
Traditional forums had the community and people could post content, but there was usually no ranking of posts or comments. Mostly just chronological order, with the exception of posts with the most recent replies being at the top of whatever category you were in
Though I’m sure there probably was a few “forward thinking” large forums that did something with feeds that looked more like modern SM
So if I sort lemmy comments by new and hide the vote count, it ceases being social media?
I don’t think that’s where I’d put the dividing line.
Forums are definitely social media. They just predate the term’s widespread use.
They are most definitely not. If forums are social media then your local news site is social media and I’m sure that’s not the definition you want. In fact that exact definition is why all of the laws around social media bans and ID restrictions in the southern United States are being overturned. That definition is so vague as to be completely useless.
Forums are not social media.