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 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.