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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

People call stuff like Lemmy, 4chan or Reddit social media too but to me it's always these Facebook or Instagram style self-presentation platforms. All of them suck ass.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'd categorize these as forums rather than social media. I mean there isnt that much socializing happening around here

[–] Birch 20 points 2 months ago

Neither is it on social media anymore, it's all just dick measuring, scams, MLMs, attention seeking and hating on outgroups now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I call it asocial media, personally.

[–] Saledovil 3 points 2 months ago

Anti-social media.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Forums are also social medias

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True those are definitely worse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

One thing I'm not a fan of is the argument that "it is what you make of it," because platforms act entirely differently depending on the other users, the algorithms, methods of interaction, interface, content and culture. Its very difficult for me to to have a good time on facebook because it fails in a lot of those aspects: toxic users, algorithms tbat push nonsense, a bad interface, incompatible content and culture. The general theme is that many social media sites end up being very polarizing and echo chambery.