• Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Aren’t your friends meant to also use Lemmy for it to count as social media?

      No one I know knows what Lemmy is.

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          Interaction through a medium is social media i guess. But i wouldn’t call ist that. Lemmy, WhatsApp and YouTube aren’t really social media for me. I don’t throw personal stuff into the void of people i more or less don’t know in hope to get likes.

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          I would argue that a forum is a type of social media. It’s very different in that it’s as anonymous as you want it to be. But it is still a place where people visit for the purpose of socializing

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        *I* don’t even know what Lemmy is, and I’ve been using it daily for months!

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      I read the meme in the way that it feels like telling people you’re not on social media since you’re on none they know.

      Also: is Facebook really still a thing?

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        It can be surprising because lemmy’s demographic is like the opposite of facebook’s but, yeah, it really still is a thing.

        A tip I often hear given to new start ups is to not underestimate how many people are only on facebook.

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          Where I live, Facebook is used by baby boomers, so yes it’s still used. But that’s the cliche. When I log in, I still see some millennials being at least online and some even posting unironically. But it’s mainly dead for millennials

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        Can’t say for OP but it still very much is where I live. People use groups for all sorts of things (neighborhood chats, classes, hobbies) and Messenger is the go-to way to contact everyone (which I admit has one advantage over all other mainstream means of contact, which is not requiring to share one’s phone number, only name)